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Poland's shrewd, 77-year-old Primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, has pressed this opposition role ever since he became Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw in 1948. When Cardinal Wojtyla joined the battle, he used his intellectual powers to persuade both disaffected liberal Catholics and Marxists to take the church seriously. The new Pope, says a Czech Jesuit in exile, has been "more dangerous for Communist countries than Cardinal Wyszynski, because he combats Marxism also on theoretical grounds, and with such success that they have been hard put to refute his arguments...
...government also threw up a blizzard of obstacles to prevent Poles themselves from taking part. It has announced two top-drawer soccer matches for the big day on May 3, scheduled huge rallies and military parades for Gniezno and Poznan on the very days last week when official church celebrations got under way in those two cities. Trains to Czestochowa will be sporadic at best; many roads will be "under repair." The government has launched a massive propaganda campaign to discredit the church, calling Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, its tough, outspoken leader, a neo-fascist and a friend of Germany. Posters...
...response was quick and virulent. Warsaw's Zycie Warszawy, in a rare personal attack on the cardinal, charged him with deliberately seeking to provoke an "atmosphere of persecution and martyrdom." Last week Cardinal Wyszynski hit back. He journeyed to the ancient western Polish city of Gniezno on a pilgrimage in honor of Poland's first patron saint. St. Adalbert.* Though city officials barred the procession from its traditional route through the center of town because of "traffic problems." 8.000 hymn-singing worshipers solemnly marched in a cold drizzle to an open-air Mass before the 980-year...
...Bishop of Prague, who was massacred in 997 while on missionary expedition among the pagan Prussians. His body was ransomed by the Polish duke, Boleslaw the Brave, and buried in Gniezno. Adalbert was canonized about...
...mentioned as the go-between. Two members of the Polish hierarchy closest to him-they accompanied him to Rome-are Bishop Zygmut Choromanski, Secretary of the Episcopate and the sharpest brain and bargainer in the Polish church, and Auxiliary Bishop Antoni Baraniak of Wyszynski's own see of Gniezno, who was imprisoned just before the cardinal and is considered perhaps his closest friend...