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Poland's powerful Catholic Church has also played a key role in the national renewal. Archbishop Jozef Glemp, named last week to succeed the late Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski as Primate (see RELIGION), promised to continue the Cardinal's policies. But, though the church has won some important concessions, such as the right to broadcast Sunday Mass, some clerics fear that its influence as a unique voice of Polish nationalism may diminish with the rise of political pluralism...
...government newspaper declared that the new man "enjoys the sincere and warm approval of the state." The subject of all this attention was a short, stout farmer's son named Jozef Glemp, who was named Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw and Roman Catholic Primate of Poland. "I want peace and unity for the whole nation," he promptly declared...
With Poland's internal wrangling and threats from the Soviet Union, Glemp assumes one of Catholicism's most difficult thrones. At 52, he is the youngest of the 21 bishops who head Polish dioceses. But he enjoyed the confidence of the previous primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died May 28. Before he became Bishop of the Warmia region in 1979, Glemp spent a dozen years in Wyszynski's secretariat, first as an adviser on canon law, then as the Cardinal's private chaplain...
...Glemp says he enjoyed a "father and son" relationship with Wyszynski...