Word: glemp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parish protests Glemp 's transfer of a courageous priest...
...parish in the Warsaw industrial suburb of Ursus, recalled dozens of similar protests during the bitter days of martial law. But in one respect it was remarkably different: for the first time Poles gathered to show their displeasure not with the Premier, Wojciech Jaruzelski, but with Jozef Cardinal Glemp, Primate of the influential Roman Catholic Church...
Such a challenge to church authority would have been unthinkable in the days of Glemp's predecessor, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died in 1981. The much revered prelate had preserved, almost singlehanded, the authority of the Polish church during more than three decades of Communist rule...
...diplomatic relations, the Vatican may move to establish ties with the world's other superpower. In spite of a general belief in the Vatican that the Soviet KGB was behind the 1981 shooting of the Holy Father, relations with Moscow are surprisingly good. Józef Cardinal Glemp. Poland's Primate, plans to visit the Soviet Union in a few months. Before he leaves. Vatican sources say, he will meet with John Paul to discuss ways to improve Vatican-Kremlin communications...
...Solidarity. It also gave the government the right to force people who quit their jobs to take new employment for up to a year at the lowest legal wage. The Sejm had intended to draw up new regulations giving the authorities freer rein to make arrests. But Jozef Cardinal Glemp, Poland's Roman Catholic Primate, issued a letter of protest, reminding the authorities that a further tightening of the legal noose would run counter to the spirit of Pope John Paul II's meetings with Jaruzelski last month. As a result, parliament agreed to reconsider the proposals...