Priest labeled by the press as a pedophile drowns in Baltic bathing mystery

A good friend of Polish Primate Stefan Wyszynski, 83-year old priest Stanislaw Skorodecki, has mysteriously drowned during an early morning swim in the Baltic Sea. Two days before his death, the Nie weekly accused him on the front page of being a pedophile. He was vacationing at the Perla hotel in northwestern Poland and was found by a concerned employee who started looking for Skorodecki when he was late for breakfast. It is unclear whether the death is connected with the Nie article, which claimed that Skorodecki abused young altar boys during the eighties. One former choirboy said, "I was an altar boy of the priest for many years. Now I have a happy family, so the years spent with him had no negative influence on me." According to information gathered by the National Remeberance Institute last year, Skorodecki may have been a communist secret agent. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A4) M.M