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Such a challenge to church authority would have been unthinkable in the days of Glemp's predecessor, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died in 1981. The much revered prelate had preserved, almost singlehanded, the authority of the Polish church during more than three decades of Communist rule...
...parish. Church members suspected that Glemp had yielded to growing pressure from the state to silence Nowak, and they decided to take action. Said a gray-haired parishioner who supported the protest: "We are defending the ideas that Father Nowak represents, the struggle for truth and the Polish church...
...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...
Last year, the Mexican author Carlos Puentes was named Commencement speaker on May 19, a mere three weeks before the ceremonies, after a much-publicized offer to Polish union leader Lech Walesa fell through (See story below...
...Kenneth Carstens, a South African civil rights activist, Robert Cox, an Argentinian journalist, and Powel Bakowski, a publisher for the Polish underground, joined Jung before an audience...