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...worsening internal climate inspired pessimism in Rome, where Pope John Paul II for the first time publicly cast doubt on his plans to travel to Poland in June. Praying to Our Lady of Czestochowa, Poland's most revered religious image, the Pope said, "To you I entrust if and how [the visit] will take place." The "if," said Vatican officials, reflected the Pope's concern that the recent developments might force him to cancel his visit...
...Free Walesa, or make it possible for him to speak as a free man." When Archbishop Jozef Glemp uttered those words from a balcony of the medieval monastery at Czestochowa last week, more than 350,000 worshipers burst into prolonged cheers and applause, many of them raising their hands in victory signs. The pilgrims had come from every corner of Poland to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the "Black Madonna," the Roman Catholic nation's holiest shrine. As the government prepared to clamp down this week on demonstrations to mark the second anniversary of the creation of the independent...
Glemp, the Polish Primate, told a crowd of well over 100,000 pilgrims in Czestochowa: "The dialogue could begin to build toward an agreement and relieve the hatred that can sometimes be invisible when people keep silent and grind their teeth...
Nothing seems likely to keep this Pontiff within Vatican gates. A possible third papal trip this year is under discussion: to Poland. John Paul ardently wants to attend the 600th anniversary of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, even if martial law is still in force when he arrives, just as he wanted to go to Britain despite the supposedly insurmountable diplomatic problems. Last week Archbishop Herbert Bednorz of Katowice stirred speculation by telling 200,000 pilgrims at a shrine in Poland that the Pope wants the internment centers closed, but if they are not closed when he visits, he will...
...parade by announcing that they were going to show up barefoot. Many Poles with a flair for the dramatic still dress in black, or at least wear a black ribbon, as a sign of national mourning over freedom lost. Others flaunt plastic badges of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, the religious emblem associated with imprisoned Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. To show they have not lost their sense of black humor, still others express resistance to martial law by quite literally wearing a resistor, a tiny radio part, as an ornament...