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...Franciscan convent at St. Martin's Church in Warsaw's Old Town has become an important symbol of the controversy between the Roman Catholic church and the Polish government. It serves as headquarters for the Primate's Committee for Relief to the Families of Those Deprived of Liberty, an organization that provides food, medical assistance and legal advice to those who have been imprisoned or detained by Poland's military government and to their families. In the regime's eyes, the St. Martin's relief committee, which is currently made up of about...
...have often sought medical aid at St. Martin's. Members of the committee, however, found that the centuries-old rule that those standing on God's soil were immune from earthly powers was broken with cruel abruptness last month when two dozen young toughs burst into the convent, smashed furniture, vandalized supplies, and savagely beat six committee members. From the minute the men came in, there was little doubt as to their identity: they were openly carrying police walkie-talkies. A few days later, militiamen picked up the teen-age son of a volunteer in another part...
...committee, which gives aid to some 300 families in the Warsaw area alone, was created only a few days after the imposition of martial law. St. Martin's has a longstanding tradition of involvement with political opposition; thus the Franciscan convent was a natural gathering place in the aftermath of the military crackdown. At first the committee had difficulty distributing its relief supplies because the thousands of people interned were each allowed to receive only two food packages a month. But church officials intervened, and soon St. Martin's was permitted to deliver additional essential supplies...
...December 1981. She later became active in a committee set up by Poland's Primate, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, to assist martial law prisoners and their families. Earlier this month, she was one of several people beaten when hoodlums invaded the committee's offices in a Warsaw convent; she suffered bruises and a broken finger when she was hit with a chair. Four other workers were dragged to a truck and later dumped in a suburban forest...
...transition. There are amorous adventures and travels to Greece, Haiti and New Mexico. He continues to survey the literary scene with visits to a suspicious and embittered Evelyn Waugh, to a mourning John Dos Passos, "whose voice would seem about to choke or tremble," and to a Roman convent where Philosopher George Santayana "slept, in his plain single bed, in the consciousness of the whole human mind...