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...disputes were dispiriting to many of those closest to the place and its past. ``Auschwitz is too tragic for quarrels,'' said Franciszek Piper, the historian at the Auschwitz State Museum. Maria Konig, a survivor who saw her mother taken away to be gassed at Auschwitz in 1944, once nursed the hope that what happened at the death camp would change the world. ``I know now it was an illusion,'' she said. ``I ask myself today how we have learned so little from the horrible experience of millions, how much we still have to do for the dignity...
...dispute was supposedly settled in 1987, when four Cardinals, including Franciszek Macharski, whose Cracow archdiocese encompasses Auschwitz, promised that the nuns would move to a new center by February 1989. That deadline passed, but the nuns did not budge and renovations that had begun on their convent continued. The delay provoked strong Jewish protests and demonstrations at the site. Tensions escalated last month when Polish workers at the convent roughed up seven Jewish protesters and dragged them off the property...
...Wyszynski lacks Wyszynski's charisma and sure hand for balancing accommodation with the Communists with, when necessary, forthright independence. Some recent decisions of the Polish church, as a result, have been made not by Glemp alone but by a council of the episcopate that includes Cracow's Franciszek Cardinal Macharski and seven senior bishops. The council's communal decisions could yet become more defiant toward the regime than Glemp would like. -By Spencer Davidson. Reported by John Moody/Warsaw...
While supporters of the banished priest rallied at evening Masses and continued their hunger strike, a delegation took the case to church authorities. With Glemp on a monthlong visit to Brazil and Argentina, Franciszek Cardinal Macharski, who succeeded Pope John Paul II as Archbishop of Cracow, gave the petitioners a sympathetic hearing. But church leaders were not likely to go against the absent Primate and split the church into quarreling factions. Ursus parishioners finally agreed to "suspend" their hunger strike and protests after Nowak appeared at an evening Mass and pleaded with his former congregation to remember that "first...
Before leaving Warsaw, John Paul paid unannounced visits to monuments commemorating his homeland's tragic ordeal in World War II. Accompanied only by Glemp, Franciszek Cardinal Macharski of Cracow and Vatican Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, the Pope visited the grim confines of Pawiak Prison, an infamous Nazi death house that has been preserved as a monument to thousands of Poles who were tortured and executed there. In a small square in front of the prison entrance, he knelt in silent prayer before a mulberry tree bearing dozens of painted metal plaques with the names of Pawiak victims...