The World - News from Sept. 14, 1986
The Polish government blamed the Roman Catholic Church for the country’s plague of alcoholism and said priests have no right to be righteous on the topic because they drink themselves. The allegations were made in a report by Jan Rem--a pen name for government spokesman Jerzy Urban--which said alcoholism spread centuries ago and the church could be blamed for it. The report claimed last year’s per capita consumption was 17 pints of liquor in a nation of 38 million people.
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