Nuremberg Notebooks - December 2022
22-12-2022
The 4th edition of the Nuremberg Notebooks at your disposal!
A year has passed
I feel the significance of the fact that we have reached this point: the point at which we can take up the defence of the priests and faithful of the Catholic Church, for it is with this issue that we have concluded the fourth edition of the Nuremberg Notebooks, which we place in your hands. It so happens that this edition also concludes the passing year 2022 by being published at Christmas, which further strengthens its significance. Our magazine has thus fulfilled its mission as a quarterly.
The patron saint of the day on which the 12th Meeting of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on the Church during Operation Covid-19 was held was St Josaphat Kuncevich, bishop and martyr, who died defending Catholicism against Orthodoxy. The life message of this Saint fits perfectly with the words that came from the doctor of medical sciences, Dominican Father Jack Maria Norkowski: "We have different approaches to the relationship between Church and State in the Orthodox tradition and Protestant communities. In both of these cases, in fact, the Church is an agenda of the state and this causes it to lose its ability to proclaim the full truth of God. The Catholic Church had won for itself an autonomy such that the Pope in matters of faith was subject to no one, not subject to the Emperor. To demand religious freedom, freedom for the Catholic Church is not to demand some special privileges for it or for the clergy, but it is a matter of freedom for all of us, spiritual freedom and the recognition of who is the real absolute - God or the bureaucracy."
Fr Norkowski did not just speak as a witness, but made a real expert assessment of the "covid period" in the life of the Polish clergy and lay faithful. His speech is so precise and exudes such spiritual peace that it does not leave many avenues of escape for people who made mistakes during that time to admit to great, truly great offences against people and God. For can there be anything more tragic in the life of a priest than to wall a man off from God by closing churches? Can there be anything more satanic than the perverse definition of "love" promulgated by Primate Pole? Recall that, according to the Primate, going to church during Easter 2020 was a violation of the commandment "Thou shalt not kill!" Can love for God conflict with love for human beings?
Banning chaplains from hospitals, preventing dying people from going to final confession, receiving the viaticum or receiving the sacrament of the anointing of the sick - these are terrible things. Anyone who has even passively contributed to them should make an examination of conscience as soon as possible.
And we, the participants in Nuremberg 2.0, those formal and those informal, can be proud to have lived through the past months and years by taking the right side.
Mr Grzegorz Braun recalled the custom of Polish noblemen - this "political nation" - who, during the reading of the Gospel in church, drew their sabres as a sign of constant readiness to defend the Holy Faith. We, all of us, already without sabres, because disarmed - but with our bare hands - have not won the war, we have not even won the battle yet, but we have fended off the enemy's entanglements and are standing on a hill ready to continue the fight - a hill of clear vision and fidelity to God and people. For what Fr Norkowski said makes it possible to realise that the battle is ultimately always about the same thing, or rather about the Same One, about a God seemingly as vulnerable as we are, hidden in a white wafer.
Not only Fr Norkowski, but many other Wonderful Priests have saved the honour of the Polish priest. This is extremely encouraging, as is the participation of politicians from the Confederation of the Polish Crown (and more broadly: from the Confederation as a whole) in the Nuremberg 2.0 project. Since we have reached the point of defending the Church by being politically active, and to say that we have fought against the "overwhelming forces of the enemy" is far too little to say, it will probably only get better. By people from other (lower) civilisations, or by their mental victims, politics is often regarded as an impure thing. The present moment contradicts this. The meeting of Fr Norkowski and others and MP Grzegorz Braun and others - how symbolic! - inspires hope. Perhaps nothing is yet lost for Polish politics?
Without demoting ourselves, we will also attack in this edition: to the disgrace of the kowtowing liars, we publish their golden thoughts, so that they cannot purge them from the public space post factum.
And in addition to that, Wonderful Journalists and Scientists with the "White Book of Pandemics".
To all the Readers of the Nuremberg Notebooks, as well as the Participants and Supporters of the activities of the Nuremberg 2.0 Committee, we extend our warmest wishes for Christmas and the upcoming New Year. May the Good Lord deign to look kindly on our efforts for freedom and justice and grant us peace of mind - whatever the circumstances. May Poland in 2023 be better!
On behalf of the Nuremberg 2.0 team - Piotr Heszen editor-in-chief of Nuremberg Notebooks
Nuremberg Notebooks No. 4 2022/12