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Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski ((アルメニア語:Թադևոս Վարդապետ Իսահակյան-Զալեսկի, ''Tadevos Vartapet Isahakian-Zaleski'')) is a Polish Roman Catholic and Armenian Catholic priest, author and activist. Born in 1956, in Kraków, Isakowicz-Zaleski was an activist of the anticommunist student opposition n Kraków in the late 1970s,〔(People of the Wprost weekly - Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski )〕 became a Solidarity chaplain in Kraków's Nowa Huta district in the 1980s, and later an avid supporter of the lustration of the Polish Church. On 3 May 2006, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, one of Poland's highest Orders, subsequently in 2007, he was awarded the Order of the Smile and ''Polish Ombudsman''s Order of Paweł Włodkowic. In 1985, he was twice tortured by Poland's communist-era secret police (Słuzba Bezpieczeństwa, SB), and some twenty years later in 2006, he started researching the secret police archives kept by Poland's Institute of National Remembrance to discover that 39 Archdiocese of Kraków priests had collaborated with then regime between 1944 and 1989, this resulted in the much publicized 'Church Spy scandal' in Poland, where till then Polish Church was only known for its role in battling communism and preserving traditional and national values both during the partitions of Poland and in the communist era.〔(Walesa joins row over priests who spied for secret police ) The Guardian, January 14, 2007.〕 Subsequently in 2007, he published his controversial book, "Księża wobec bezpieki na przykładzie archidiecezji krakowskiej" (Polish Priests and the Communist Secret Police) on priests who cooperated with communist secret services.〔〔 He is subject of a documentary 'Poland's Turbulent Priest', shown on BBC World News in 2009, about his struggle with the communist regime and the Polish church.〔('POLAND'S TURBULENT PRIEST' ) BBC World News.〕〔(In the spotlight: Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski ) Warsaw Business Journal, June 5, 2006.〕 == Life == Father Isakowicz-Zaleski was born in Krakow to a Polish father and an Armenian mother.〔(Nowa Trybuna Opolska, interview with Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski )〕 Since high school years he was engaged in several Roman Catholic youth organizations. After graduating, he entered a Seminary in his native city, which did not prevent him from being called for service in the Polish Army. He served in the years 1975-1977 in Brzeg.〔 In the late 1970s, after returning to the seminary, he joined the anticommunist student movements, such as Student Committee of Solidarity. He co-published a Samizdat magazine ''Cross of Nowa Huta'', also in 1977 he debuted in Tygodnik Powszechny with his poems. In 1980, Isakowicz-Zaleski became engaged in the Solidarity movement;〔 three years later he was ordained and ordered to continue studies at the Papal Armenian Collegium in Rome. Unfortunately, he was not allowed to leave Communist Poland, because of his underground activities. Isakowicz-Zaleski began working in Krakow’s district of Nowa Huta, where he celebrated holy Mass for the workers and for the fatherland in the Maximilian Kolbe parish in Mistrzejowice. Throughout the 1980s, he was repressed, and the Communist secret service agents twice brutally beat him.〔〔(Associated Press, 30 priests named as registered informants with secret police )〕 Both incidents happened in 1985, and came in the wake of the notorious 1984 murder of fellow Solidarity priest Jerzy Popiełuszko, the first attack occurred in April at his mother home, where after being gagged, the agents burned a V sign - the victory sign of the outlawed Solidarity trade union, which he supported, on his chest with a cigarette,〔(Priest Leads Push to Expose Clergy ) Washington Post, January 11, 2007〕〔(AN END TO THE LIES: The Polish Church's Secret Past ) Der Spiegel, January 16, 2007〕〔 later in December of the year, he was attacked again, this time at his presbytery〔(Al Jazeera English, Polish priest to expose clergy )〕 and Isakowicz-Zaleski’s ordeal was later used by Polish director Maciej Gawlikowski, in his 2006 film ''To Intimidate the Priest''. In 1988, as a priest of the workers, he participated in the strike in Nowa Huta’s Lenin Steel Mill. At the same time, he began helping the poor and the handicapped, together with nuns from local convents. In 1987, he co-founded charitable ''Foundation of Brother Albert Chmielowski''. Currently, he is director of the Foundation, which owns a shelter in the village of Radwanowice in the suburbs of Krakow. In 2006, after months of research at Institute of National Remembrance, he drafted a book on the collaboration between Catholic priests and government agents. But Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz of Kraków denied him the permission to publish it, unless it is vetted in advance by archdiocesan officials. On May 3, 2006, father Zaleski was awarded one of Poland's highest Orders, the Polonia Restituta (Order of Polish Rebirth) by President Lech Kaczyński. In November 2006, he received an apology from the nation's Catholic primate, Cardinal Józef Glemp of Warsaw for earlier criticizing his research into collaboration between the clergy and the Communist-era secret police.〔(/index.cfm?recnum=47667 Controversial Polish priest receives cardinal's apology for criticism ) Catholic World News (CWN), Nov 15, 2006.〕 In Feb 2007, he finally published his controversial book, "Ksieza wobec bezpieki na przykladzie archidiecezji krakowskiej" (Polish Priests and the Communist Secret Police) on priests who cooperated with communist secret services.〔(Controversial Book Published ) cracow-life.com, Feb 28, 2007.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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