Massive turnout for rosary crusade in Poland. Liberals furious
Hundreds of thousands of Polish Catholics encircled their country
with prayer Saturday, imploring Our Lady’s intervention to save Poland
and the world.
As Catholics lined the country’s 2,000-mile border for the “Rosary at the Borders,”
progressives and compatible media deemed the national prayer gathering
“controversial,” xenophobic, Islamophobic, or “not” representative of
the Catholic Church.“Poland Catholics hold controversial prayer day on borders,” the BBC’s headline said of the event.
Rafał Pankowski, head of the Warsaw multicultural understanding advocacy group Never Again, told the Associated Press, “The whole concept of doing it on the borders reinforces the ethno-religious, xenophobic model of national identity.”
Krzysztof Luft, a former member of Poland’s largest opposition party, the liberal Civic Platform, tweeted, “Ridiculing Christianity on mass scale. They treat religion as a tool for keeping the backwardness in Polish backwater.”
“Rosary to the Borders” was organized by lay Catholics and sanctioned by Church leaders in Poland, with some 320 churches from 22 dioceses participating in roughly 4,000 locations along Poland’s border with Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Russia and the Baltic Sea.
More than 90 percent of Poland’s 38 million citizens are Roman Catholic.
The Catholic prime minister of Poland endorsed the rosary event as well. Beata Szydlo tweeted, “I greet all the participants.”
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