Word: cardinale
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Communist Poland has a continuing cold war all its own, between the Roman Catholic faithful of Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski and the Red bureaucrats of Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka. Recently, the cold war has been getting hotter.
For months the cardinal has fumed be cause Gomulka failed to convene a long dormant committee on church-state relations intended to review political harassment of religious activities. Finally, in a series of Lenten sermons, Wyszynski sharply criticized the regime in two at tacks on state-sponsored atheism, a third...
The Red response was quick and virulent. Warsaw's Zycie Warszawy, in a rare personal attack on the cardinal, charged him with deliberately seeking to provoke an "atmosphere of persecution and martyrdom." Last week Cardinal Wyszynski hit back. He journeyed to the ancient western Polish city of Gniezno on...
But to move closer to Rome's ultimate goal-"a union of all the baptized, all Christians, about 900 million of them"-the council will explore areas of practical cooperation between "the separated brethren" and the Roman Catholic Church. One area suggested by the cardinal was as timely as...
"What a Character." Few recall that Mussolini once fancied himself as "the Lenin of Italy" and that Lenin himself (though Hibbert does not record the fact) returned the compliment by calling him the most hopeful prospect for Bolshevism among Europe's Socialists. In those days before World War I...