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...church has tried to stay out of the fray. Celebrating an open-air Mass for 20,000 people who had gathered to mark the arrival in Warsaw of the Black Madonna, Poland's most revered religious painting, Roman Catholic Primate Josef Cardinal Glemp told the hushed crowd, "This will be a decisive year for Poland, a year that will define the direction of her development." Glemp carefully avoided any reference to the May 1 protest. But later in the day, before another Mass in the port city of Gdansk, the Polish Cardinal spent about half an hour talking with...
...Pope's choices is that five of them live under Marxist regimes. Bishop Julijans Vaivods, 87, who has been acting head of the Archdiocese of Riga, is the first Latvian and the first resident of the Soviet Union ever to be made a Cardinal. Józef Glemp, 54, who succeeded Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski as Poland's Primate, was also elevated, a move that could strengthen his hand in delicate dealings with the Communist regime...
...stunning news came at the end of a week of big headlines. On Monday, Jaruzelski and Archbishop Józef Glemp, the Primate of Poland, jointly announced that Pope John Paul II would visit his native land next June. Then, on Wednesday, a nationwide strike called by the underground leaders of Solidarity to mark the second anniversary of the union's legal registration fizzled, thanks to the extraordinary security measures taken by Warsaw. Even the announcement of Walesa's release was more of a testament to the success of martial law than to any lessening of repression...
Although 50 Polish bishops were at St. Peter's, the country's Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp of Warsaw, stayed at home because of his fear of civil unrest. He celebrated an outdoor Mass at Niepokalanow (City of the Immaculate), a friary founded by Kolbe 25 miles west of Warsaw. John Paul, in a noontime address following the canonization, denounced the dissolution of the independent union Solidarity as "a violation of the fundamental rights of man and society." (Poland's state radio and television censored this criticism in its coverage of the ceremonies.) Next day, facing an audience...
...take some comfort in the knowledge that Poles themselves are keeping the faith, even in the face of death. As Archbishop Jozef Glemp said Sunday in response to the banning. "We know that what is just, what is an ideal, cannot fall. Structures can be abolished, but no idea can disappear...