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...independent trade union federation. The occasion: a meeting of Solidarity's 107-member national commission. The task: to react to Walesa's announcement that he would join in an unprecedented tripartite summit meeting with Poland's Premier, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, and Roman Catholic Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp. The meeting would consider the country's explosive political and economic plight...
There was no reply. Walesa stalked out of the meeting to his car and sped 170 miles to Archbishop Glemp's residence in Warsaw, where the pair had a long talk before going to see Jaruzelski...
...came away with an offer from Jaruzelski to open negotiations on a wide range of social and economic issues, including Solidarity's key demands for an important role in running the economy and the right to publish its views without censorship. Jaruzelski also discussed with Walesa and the Archbishop his plan to involve government, church and union in a national front for permanent dialogue, a consultative forum composed of leading Polish social and political figures, but one that stopped far short of being a national coalition government...
American bishops lobbied strenuously to keep their privilege in the new code. An American member of the canon law commission, Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati and his canon law adviser, Monsignor John A. Alesandro of Garden City, N.Y., say that the boom in U.S. annulments is the result of social factors. They cite the high number of divorces and the high number of mixed marriages in American society. U.S. annulments now will drag out somewhat, agrees Bernardin, but he says, "We feel this is something we can work with." To which Alesandro adds, "We're not handing...
John Cardinal Cody, 73, has aroused passionate reactions ever since he was appointed Archbishop of Chicago in 1965. His detractors found him cold, arrogant and aloof, given to acting arbitrarily without consulting lower church officials. His supporters praised his generally strong record on civil rights and his relatively efficient administration of the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese (2.4 million members...