Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Poland's Stalinist government fell in October 1956 and Wladyslaw Gomulka took power, he lost no time in sending representatives to the cardinal to discuss the conditions of his return. Now Wyszynski was in a position to dictate the terms on which he would accept his freedom, for...
Wyszynski laid his conditions on the line for Gomulka's emissaries: release of all imprisoned bishops, priests and monks, full implementation of the 1950 church-state agreement, with special emphasis on restoring religious teaching in the schools, plus an agreement to hold general elections. The conditions were promptly accepted...
Heroes in Truth. So began the unique cooperation of cardinal and Communist that has steered Poland through six shaky months of peace. Tensest time of all was the election campaign, when it became clear that many voters, incensed at having few candidates but Communists to vote for, were planning to...
Within a few days of the election, Wyszynski had another chance to stave off disaster. A group of students in a college near Warsaw decided to stage a march on the Russian embassy, gathering support as they went along. It was 2 a.m. when the cardinal awoke to find a...
In Touch with the World. "Modest obscurity" is a phrase that might also describe Wyszynski's life in his own unpalatial episcopal palace in Warsaw at No. 17 Miodowa, unmarked by any emblem except a faded Polish flag. In the two-story, double-winged building, Wyszynski lives austerely with...