Word: jozef
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Poland, too, there appears to be a desire to improve relations between church and state. Last month Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski met with Jozef Cardinal Glemp for the first time in 17 months, and Foreign Minister Stefan Olszowski paid a call on the Pope, the first by a Polish Cabinet member to the Holy See in 3 1/2 years...
...regime's attempts to intimidate the clergy stirred Primate Jozef Cardinal Glemp to declare last week that the church would "defend priests." The government's latest attacks, he said, "point to ideological struggle." Voicing even such restrained criticism was a departure for Glemp, who is widely considered by Poles to be too conciliatory toward the regime...
...Silesia from 1980 to 1981, disappeared for three days immediately following his release from prison. After resurfacing, he announced that he had been secretly conferring on future strategy with Zbigniew Bujak, Solidarity's fugitive Mazowsze branch leader. Possibly to hinder such activities, authorities last week detained Frasyniuk and Jozef Pinior, another former local union official, immediately after they laid flowers before a Solidarity commemorative plaque in Wroclaw. The pair were sentenced to two months' detention for disturbing public order. Dozens of others were briefly arrested at peaceful pro-Solidarity demonstrations around the country. Nonetheless, contacts among former activists...
...evening Mass at St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw was jammed last week, but not just because of Lenten piety. The service marked the first formal appearance of Jozef Cardinal Glemp after his return home from a 27-day journey to Brazil and Argentina. The Primate of Poland was characteristically cautious on this dramatic occasion. Mounting the pulpit, he doffed his scarlet biretta and carefully positioned it alongside the microphone. Next he paused. Then, explaining that he wanted to share his impressions of South America with his 1,000 congregants, the Cardinal set off on a soporific travelogue that...
...principal of a nearby school reportedly tried to resign rather than enforce the crucifix ban. Dominski met with parents at the Mietno school and tried to have them sign pledges that their children would obey school rules; the parents refused. Though local church officials were firmly on their side, Jozef Cardinal Glemp, Poland's Primate, offered only tepid comfort. Stopping over in Rome after a three-week trip to Argentina and Brazil last week, Glemp said, "Since the end of the war, we have always had problems with the crucifixes. All of that is normal...