Episcopate sees unemployment as grave problem and proposes solutions

The Polish Episcopate plans to issue a letter on unemployment in May, while on Tuesday the Upper-Silesian Archbishop Damian Zimon published a report with recommendations to solve the problem, including one according to which "only competent people should be making decisions on the economy." The Church recognizes unemployment as the most pressing social problem in Poland, with Archbishop Zimon calling on the clergy to take an active role in fighting it, even going as far as organizing professional courses for the unemployed. The Archbishop listed lower taxes and technologies as other solutions. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p.4) T.J.