Word: glemp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Poland, too, there appears to be a desire to improve relations between church and state. Last month Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski met with Jozef Cardinal Glemp for the first time in 17 months, and Foreign Minister Stefan Olszowski paid a call on the Pope, the first by a Polish Cabinet member to the Holy See in 3 1/2 years...
...regime's attempts to intimidate the clergy stirred Primate Jozef Cardinal Glemp to declare last week that the church would "defend priests." The government's latest attacks, he said, "point to ideological struggle." Voicing even such restrained criticism was a departure for Glemp, who is widely considered by Poles to be too conciliatory toward the regime...
...WORLD, March 26], as Cardinal Glemp suggests, than to have the entire Polish Roman Catholic hierarchy in prison...
...Glemp's flock was unhappy over his stands, the regime decidedly was not. The government was delighted to see the Cardinal on the hot seat for a change, fighting a two-front battle against disgruntled Catholics as well as the state. Addressing a party conference, Jaruzelski said that Poles need not choose between loyalty to the state and to the church, but he did concede "an obvious contradiction between our philosophy and systems of religious faith." He blamed foreign centers-presumably the Western press-for abusing "church politics for their own purposes." Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban gave foreign journalists...
Caught between two pressures, Glemp may find himself in embarrassing difficulty. The hand-picked successor to the late Stefan Cardinal 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...