Polish monk accused of spying on JPII

The Vatican has ordered a monk to return to Poland to face charges that he spied on Pope John Paul II for the communist regime.

Father Hejmo told reporters in Rome he had shared information with an acquaintance, but did not know the man was an agent. The man, a Pole, has since died. "I have never been a secret collaborator," Father Hejmo said. "I can blame myself for being naive. This man came, we helped and on top of it I took his family around Rome ... I partly feel a victim of this situation now."

But Father Hejmo's Dominican superior, Maciej Zieba, told reporters he had seen the files and that they were "convincing and shocking". Andrzej Paczkowski, a historian at the institute which investigates Nazi and communist era crime, said the dossier ran to some 700 pages and also covered "earlier periods."