Word: papally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Paul went to Czestochowa a million more covered the grassy slopes around the Jasna Gora monastery. Some Poles held banners in red and white, indiscriminately mixing religion and politics in messages such as HOPE-SOLIDARITY and YOU ARE THE REAL FATHER OF SOLIDARITY. Others laid flowers along the papal path or held up plain wooden crosses as tokens of what their nation had suffered...
...imminent arrival. About 20 university students from Poznan who had slept overnight on the floor of a Dominican cloister strummed guitars and sang religious and folk songs. Entire families huddled in the windows of nearby buildings that were decorated with white-and-red Polish flags, yellow-and-white papal pennants and portraits of the Pope and the Black Madonna. As John Paul rode past in the white Popemobile that had been brought from Rome, a wave of emotion surged through the crowd. Some Poles openly wept. Others thrust their fingers defiantly into the air in a V sign and chanted...
Britain's papal nuncio says a peace priest may be a Soviet dupe...
...suspected of planning unofficial protest demonstrations for the May 1 workers' holiday. At his press conference, Walesa protested that the union members had no intention of fomenting disorder. "If no one beats us," he said, "there will be no threat from us." Moreover, he is counting on the papal presence in June to raise the morale of the dispirited population...
...development." Glemp carefully avoided any reference to the May 1 protest. But later in the day, before another Mass in the port city of Gdansk, the Polish Cardinal spent about half an hour talking with Walesa. Both men favor negotiations between the government and Solidarity. In their view, the papal visit looms as a major opportunity to prepare the way for a new dialogue. The Catholic hierarchy thus opposes anything that could threaten that hope...