A documentary exposing child sex abuse in Poland's Roman Catholic Church is shaking up the country's politics
Kaczyński is racing to get ahead of the issue. On Sunday hethat it is his party that has been the most determined to root out sex abuse. He vowed to increase the penalty for such acts to 30 years in prison, and to raise the age of sexual consent from 15 to 18. However, he continued to strongly defend the church, saying:"Who wants to attack and destroy the Polish nation, first attacks the church.
"If you're asking about the result of the election, yes, it is in danger," Adam Bielan, deputy speaker of the senate and a PiS candidate for the European Parliament,Jarosław Kaczyński's full-throated defense of the church could cause problems for his party | Sean Gallup/Getty Images , an openly gay politician who advocates a strict separation between church and state, said Marek Migalski, a political scientist with the University of Silesia.Over the last four years, the alliance between Law and Justice and the church has been good for both sides. But Polish society is rapidly changing.
Last year"Clergy," a fictional film about priests and child abuse, greed and alcoholism, broke box office records.
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