Word: nowak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cardinal in his sermon did not broach his other problem, the transfer of Father Mieczyslaw Nowak from the Church of St. Joseph the Worker in Warsaw's industrial suburb of Ursus. The next day, however, Glemp held a 90-minute meeting with the banished priest as well as with representatives of nine of St. Joseph's parishioners who were fasting to protest the Cardinal's decision. Once again the outcome appeared to indicate Glemp's determination to coexist with the Jaruzelski regime. Despite the fast and the fact that many of Nowak's supporters...
Glemp's troubles began when he ordered Father Mieczyslaw Nowak, 40, who had served for seven years as a priest in the Ursus church, to move to a rural parish of Leki Koscielne. Normally the transfer would have gone unchallenged. But Nowak was an outspoken supporter of Solidarity, the disbanded independent trade union. His name had appeared on a government list of 69 priests under investigation for possible illegal activities. Since the Church of St. Joseph the Worker draws its members from the nearby Ursus tractor factory, a sprawling plant that was once famous as a union stronghold...
...Cardinal Macharski, who succeeded Pope John Paul II as Archbishop of Cracow, gave the petitioners a sympathetic hearing. But church leaders were not likely to go against the absent Primate and split the church into quarreling factions. Ursus parishioners finally agreed to "suspend" their hunger strike and protests after Nowak appeared at an evening Mass and pleaded with his former congregation to remember that "first of all, I serve the church...
...Glemp does not yield, Nowak's disgruntled flock could take the case to Rome. But Pope John Paul II could only have been dismayed by the troublesome protest. Like Glemp, the Pontiff has apparently come to believe that the Solidarity era is now a thing of the past. During a meeting with a group of Polish pilgrims in Rome last week, John Paul used the past tense in referring to the union. "Solidarity," said the Pope, "has been invested in the history of the Polish soul...
...CHARACTER OF NOWAK is the center of Moonlighting, with the others merely secondary. Wish only the little dialogue and only spare interior monologue Jeremy Irons managed to capture and delineate every nuance of his character's brooding intensity. An equally superb performance is that of writer-director Skolimkowski. Conceived and completed in one month. Moonlighting shows a rare combination of white hot inspiration and totally lucid artistic control. Every scene, from the opening to the remarkable closing image is effective and forms a part of considered whole. The almost documentary like cinematography captures the dark visual textures and somber Irony...