Stanisław Musiał was a pioneer and leader of Catholic-Jewish dialogue and Polish-Jewish reconciliation.
Career
He was ordained as priest in 1963. He wrote numerous articles in Gazeta Wyborcza, Midrasz, and Polin on antisemitism, Catholic-Jewish relations, and issues between Poland and world Jewry. Musial played a key role in organizing and facilitating a Geneva meeting among international Catholic and Jewish leaders that led to a 1987 agreement resolving the conflict over the Carmelite Convent at Auschwitz.
Active in numerous academic and human rights forums, French
Membership
A long-time member of editorial board of Poland"s Tygodnik Powszechny, he also directed Krakow"s Apostleship of Prayer Publishing House in the years immediately following the Solidarity revolution in Poland. Musial was a member of the board of the Geneva-based United Nations Watch and Krakow"s Judaica Foundation - Center for Jewish Culture, as well as closely involved with the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecim.