text: As I have posted in in this space before, under the Law and Justice Party, Poland is in retro mode, sinking back into the clerical-fascist regimes of the 1930s of Colonel Beck and Marshal Pilsudski. The reactionary and anti-Semitic Catholic hierarchy supported these governments in which there was little separation between church and state.  When the Communists took over the country after the war(for understandable reasons, the Red Army was going nowhere), like all leftist governments, communist or non-Communist, they put the Church on a short lease, brooking no interference from arrogant bishops used to getting its way. Like the Church in Ireland, a narrow_minded clerical class is discrediting the Church, and the general exodus from the Church is already under way.