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Brass-Band Welcome. Shortly afterward came a memorial Roman Catholic Mass. The principal celebrant, a graying, robust man whose lean, lined face seemed at home in the crowd of Polish worshipers, was John Cardinal Krol, Archbishop of Philadelphia. Krol's father had come from Poland, and the cardinal won the crowd immediately by addressing them in fluent, if accented Polish. "I was never a prisoner in a concentration camp," he said. "I was never captured or exiled. I never suffered [your] scourges. I bow my head...
Four other cardinals joined Krol as pilgrims to the Kolbe memorial at Auschwitz, including Poland's Primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, and John Cardinal Wright-the only other American cardinal, besides Krol, ever to enter Communist Poland. But it was Krol's visit that became the gala pilgrim's progress. When he arrived in his late father's home village of Siekierczyna, Krol was greeted by several dozen horsemen in the 17th century uniforms of Polish cavalry, who led him grandly to a brass-band welcome amid throngs of cheering villagers. After Mass in the village church...
...Krol's visit was more than an old-home week for a Polish-American cardinal. In 1966, when Poland celebrated its 1,000th anniversary, both Krol and Pope Paul VI were denied permission to visit the country. Krol's welcome now is just one sign of a thaw between Poland's government and the Roman Catholic Church. On two fronts, those relations seem to be getting better. Last summer the Vatican appointed six longtime Polish administrators as the regular bishops of dioceses in former German territories, thus recognizing the Oder-Neisse line that West Germany had acknowledged...
Cardinal Wyszynski-whom Krol has invited to visit the U.S.-is still not happy with the building permits that he has been able to scratch up from the authorities for new churches. Only 37 are currently authorized, though some Polish parishes must run Masses all day long on Sundays to accommodate the crowds. An invitation to Pope Paul VI to visit Poland seems still some distance in the future, since it could embarrass the government by revealing the strength of Polish Catholicism...
...termed the good-conscience practice "a scandal" and questioned how any divorced Catholic who attempted remarriage could be considered to be in good conscience. Lyons' view is known to be shared privately by many U.S. prelates, including the president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, John Cardinal Krol of Philadelphia. In August, Cardinal Krol consigned the good-conscience cause to limbo. Citing a Vatican directive, the cardinal forbade all practices "contrary to current discipline," pending the results of a study on the problems of remarried Catholics that is currently under way in Rome. Most of the dioceses known...