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...Pontiffs tribute to the late Primate underscored how deeply Polish Catholics have felt the loss of Wyszynski, who almost single-handed shaped the church into a social force that Poland's Communist leaders can now ignore only at great risk. His successor, Jozef Cardinal Glemp, 54, a soft-spoken expert in canon law, realizes only too well that he cannot imitate the late Primate's autocratic style. Instead, he has tried to work in closer consultation with the church's 89-member episcopate...
...Glemp has come under criticism from some Catholic intellectuals and radical parish priests who actively supported Solidarity. They claim that he has not been forceful enough in pressing the Jaruzelski government to seek a dialogue with Polish society. Says a writer who specializes in religious affairs: "The church knows from experience that the only time the authorities listen is when the government is weak. Jaruzelski is weak now, and the more militant branch of the church believes it is time to set conditions for future cooperation...
With Solidarity no longer a third force in Polish politics, the church has once again moved into its traditional role as the only recognized voice of the disaffected and disenfranchised. Says Father Bronislaw Piasecki, Glemp's private
...families of the imprisoned (see box). A Jesuit priest from the city of Kalisz was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for collecting aid for the relatives of political prisoners. When the teen-age son of a relief worker died after he was mauled by the police, Cardinal Glemp lashed back, calling on the government to stop "infringing human and civic rights." Although the authorities have promised to investigate the event, Poles expect no results. When the Pope spotted the dead boy's mother in a crowded Warsaw church, he spoke to her softly for several moments, then embraced...
Przemyk was the son of Barbara Sadowska, a poet who had been briefly interned after the imposition of martial law in December 1981. She later became active in a committee set up by Poland's Primate, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, to assist martial law prisoners and their families. Earlier this month, she was one of several people beaten when hoodlums invaded the committee's offices in a Warsaw convent; she suffered bruises and a broken finger when she was hit with a chair. Four other workers were dragged to a truck and later dumped in a suburban forest...