Word: glemp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embattled Cardinal Glemp opts for an accommodation...
...nearby school reportedly tried to resign rather than enforce the crucifix ban. Dominski met with parents at the Mietno school and tried to have them sign pledges that their children would obey school rules; the parents refused. Though local church officials were firmly on their side, Jozef Cardinal Glemp, Poland's Primate, offered only tepid comfort. Stopping over in Rome after a three-week trip to Argentina and Brazil last week, Glemp said, "Since the end of the war, we have always had problems with the crucifixes. All of that is normal...
...Glemp's troubles began when he ordered Father Mieczyslaw Nowak, 40, who had served for seven years as a priest in the Ursus church, to move to a rural parish of Leki Koscielne. Normally the transfer would have gone unchallenged. But Nowak was an outspoken supporter of Solidarity, the disbanded independent trade union. His name had appeared on a government list of 69 priests under investigation for possible illegal activities. Since the Church of St. Joseph the Worker draws its members from the nearby Ursus tractor factory, a sprawling plant that was once famous as a union stronghold...
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...
...Glemp does not yield, Nowak's disgruntled flock could take the case to Rome. But Pope John Paul II could only have been dismayed by the troublesome protest. Like Glemp, the Pontiff has apparently come to believe that the Solidarity era is now a thing of the past. During a meeting with a group of Polish pilgrims in Rome last week, John Paul used the past tense in referring to the union. "Solidarity," said the Pope, "has been invested in the history of the Polish soul...