Word: decourtray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Macharski's surprise action moved another of the four Cardinals, Albert Decourtray of Lyon, to issue his own declaration that the 1987 agreement must be honored. The demonstrations and hostile climate "cannot outweigh the accord," he asserted. Pope John Paul II has so far declined to intervene openly in a local Polish church matter, but behind Decourtray's unequivocating statement may be glimpsed a papal hand...
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