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"Polish bishop sees Michael Jackson's visit as a sign of decline." Presbyterian Record. Presbyterian Record. 1996. HighBeam Research. 9 Dec. 2017 <https://www.highbeam.com>.
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A Polish Roman Catholic bishop has sharply criticized a visit to Warsaw in September by pop star Michael Jackson, accusing him of "importing a culture of nihilism."
"As a pastor, I am deeply worried -- even internally broken -- by the youth culture coming to Poland," Bishop Stanislaw Stefanek, convener of the Roman Catholic Church's Family Commission, said of Jackson's visit. "Today's entertainment business manipulates the open, trusting hearts of the young, feeding them with poison and destroying their hopes. It encourages them to flee to a world of fantasy and unreal emotion, feeding frustration with life and every possible social pathology."
However, the head of Poland's 570,000-member Orthodox church, Metropolitan Bazyl, said Jackson's opponents were using "exaggerated, demagogic language . …
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