Word: romes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present Gilmore, who teaches Renaissance and Reformation history, is in Europe on a sabbatical. Although he has spent most of the year in Rome, he is currently travelling in Eastern Europe...
...Cardinal Sapieha, archbishop of Cracow, wrote to Communist President Boleslaw Bierut complaining of "abnormal moral pressure . . . organized hunts after priests." who were sometimes arrested and dragged off in their vestments. The Communists replied by confiscating all lands held by religious orders. The following month, while Cardinal Sapieha was in Rome, Primate Wyszynski shocked the Vatican by negotiating an agreement with the Red regime...
...steady stream of clergy, nuns, officials and plain citizens in his waiting rooms. There has been no evidence of any direct contact with Gomulka; Education Minister Wladyslaw Bienkowski is usually mentioned as the go-between. Two members of the Polish hierarchy closest to him-they accompanied him to Rome-are Bishop Zygmut Choromanski, Secretary of the Episcopate and the sharpest brain and bargainer in the Polish church, and Auxiliary Bishop Antoni Baraniak of Wyszynski's own see of Gniezno, who was imprisoned just before the cardinal and is considered perhaps his closest friend...
...Rome, in addition to seeking guidance on these issues, Wyszynski may be working out a plan of action for the nerve-racking eventuality of Gomulka's political fall or replacement by Soviet intervention. He is also doing his best to win over the brassbound conservatives who still think that the stinging intransigence of old Cardinal Sapieha was the only way to deal with Communists...
...addition. Cardinal Wyszynski hopes to bring back with him some concessions from Rome...