Word: glemp
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...liners in the Curia, who are unhappy with the freewheeling style of this Pope, hoped he would consider doing just that. But there are indications that John Paul has other things in mind. After lunching with the Pope several days before his operation, Poland's new Primate Jozef Glemp declared that John Paul will "almost certainly" be traveling next year. As it happens, next year Poland will be marking the 600th anniversary of the arrival of the nation's most venerated religious symbol, the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, clearly a celebration the former Cardinal from Cracow would move...
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...
...onetime laborer who earned two doctorates in Rome, Glemp has gained valuable experience negotiating with Communists on church-state relations...
...Glemp will be no Wyszynski. Prior to the appointment, Cracow's Father Andrzej Bardecki remarked that Wyszynski was "the unofficial dictator of the church, with prerogatives like no one else in the his tory of the church in Poland." But, while his successor is likely to be more collegial, the shrewd Wyszynski made sure that a well-prepared primate would still be in the thick of things...