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...church was in considerable turmoil over Glemp's decision last month to silence, with a transfer out of the Warsaw area, a priest in an industrial parish who had been outspoken in support of the Solidarity labor union during its brief life. In the eyes of many Polish Catholics, the transfer indicated that the cautious Glemp was about to placate the Jaruzelski government...
...such a situation, the St. John's congregation expected Glemp would have to address at least the emotionally charged cross confrontation in his evening sermon. At last he did. The travelogue had droned on for 15 minutes when the analogy suddenly became unmistakable. Among the Polish emigrants he had visited in South America, the Cardinal declared, "everywhere beside the white eagle [Poland's national symbol] there is a cross. Nobody renounces either the cross or the eagle because they know that these two symbols, united for centuries, represent Poland...
...question arises," the Cardinal continued, "Who is offended so much by this cross?" It sounded like a challenge to the government, one that many Poles would gladly welcome. But Glemp had hardly raised the issue before he put it down. "We need peace," he said, centering on the Polish situation in general. "The church strives for social order and for a moral good. But the social order includes tolerance, which cannot be taught with intolerance of the cross in the name of secularity. The church will defend values in peace, looking for ways, however difficult, to get through." What Glemp...
...cannot be places of worship. The state does not try to secularize church institutions, and the church must not try to clericalize state institutions. Some overzealous people do not understand this." To make certain that the "zealots" understood, residents of Garwolin were informed that a detachment of ZOMO, the Polish riot police, had been put on stand-by near the town...
...Polish-born American, I want to add to your analysis of Chernenko. The new leader has a round face, indicating a stubbornness that is typical of a Russian peasant. In spite of this, people from this background are easier to negotiate with and to handle. They are emotional, honest and, if properly approached, rational. In contrast to Chernenko, Yuri Andropov had the profile of a Western intellectual, and this image initially misled the world. There is no mask on Chernenko...