Documentation complete in beatification process of Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko

After four years of gathering information, the first stage in the beatification of “Solidarity” priest Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko is complete. Warsaw Archdiocese Tribunal presented a 900-page document describing his life and death to Cardinal Jozef Glemp and will soon send it to the Vatican. The main task was to prove that Father Popieluszko was a martyr, i.e. that he died as a victim of hatred of the Catholic religion, rather than for political reasons. Popieluszko was murdered by the Communist Secret Service on Oct.19, 1984