Dictator plans to deal with Catholic priests from Poland

Some Catholic priests from Poland on the territory of Belarus are engaged “in wrong activities,” Lukashenka stated.

“As for Polish priests, I am not really satisfied with service of some representatives of Poland in our country. I have told so to the former Pope when we met. I told that sometimes they are engaged in the wrong activities, there not the activities they should be engaged in,” the ruler said at the press-conference in Minsk on January 29.

He added that he attracted attention of Cardinal Kazimierz Świątek (Kazimir Sviontak) to this fact once, and he responded with understanding.

Lukashenka noted that there are different people among priests, as well as in other spheres of life. Some of them commit administrative offenses.

The dictator reminded that he had always been urging to prepare more Catholic priests inside Belarus itself. At the same time, he noted that Catholic priests from other countries, not only from Poland, are invited to Belarus.

“There are problems, but they are not catastrophic or insolvable ones. We are going to deal with that without ruffle, including [the matter of] Polish citizens who are preaching and serve in the Catholic Church. There is no catastrophe in that,” he said.

Lukashenka reminded that the two major denominations in Belarus are Orthodoxy and Catholicism. The majority of population consider themselves Orthodox. However Belarus is in the second place among post-Soviet states according the number of Catholics. It goes after Lithuania. “There are hundreds of thousands of people, maybe a million,” he explained.