The Polish media have created a stir recently by outing Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz, the former personal secretary of Saint John Paul II, for carrying on a homosexual relationship with an Italian, Andrea Nardotto, whom he ordained a permanent deacon in a private ceremony in Warsaw. This news report is similar to how Monsignor Battista Ricca whom Pope Francis placed in charge of his Vatican residence, the Casa Santa Marta, was reported for cohabitating with a Swiss Army captain, Patrick Harri, when he was assigned to the Nunciature in Uruguay.
Deputy Marshal of the Senate, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, disclosed during a podcast that was reported by Newsweek Poland on December 7, 2024, how Dziwisz purchased an expensive apartment for Nardotto in the historic district of Krakow. During the podcast, Kamiński discussed how there are photos in the media of a “well-known Polish hierarch holding hands with his Italian friend” while “one entire city in Poland now roars about an apartment bought for the friend, imported from Italy, by the said well known Polish hierarch.” Scandalized by flaunting their gay relationship in public, Kamiński further said, “And everyone knows about it” (I wszyscy o tym wiedza).
Kaminski believes it is a waste of time to report Dziwisz to Pope Francis who has yet to deny allegations by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò and others that he engaged in homosexual relationships with Jesuit novices before appointing an accused homosexual, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, to oversee sexual abuse allegations in the Church. Kaminski joins other lay Catholics who believe that prelates like Dziwisz, Fernandez, and even Francis, feel they are exempt from observing the moral norms that they expect praying, paying, and obeying Catholics to follow. Given the current state of moral leadership in the Church similar to the pontificates of homosexually active Popes Leo X (1513-1521) and Julius III (1550-1555), Kaminski believes fraudulent shepherds like Dziwisz and others who look down upon him and other lay Catholics as docile sheep are responsible for the fact that there are fewer sheep to shepherd each day.
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