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...evening Mass at St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw was jammed last week, but not just because of Lenten piety. The service marked the first formal appearance of Jozef Cardinal Glemp after his return home from a 27-day journey to Brazil and Argentina. The Primate of Poland was characteristically cautious on this dramatic occasion. Mounting the pulpit, he doffed his scarlet biretta and carefully positioned it alongside the microphone. Next he paused. Then, explaining that he wanted to share his impressions of South America with his 1,000 congregants, the Cardinal set off on a soporific travelogue that...
...last July. Externally, the church once again confronted the government of Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski, this time on the removal of crucifixes from state-run school-rooms.* Internally, the 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...
...white banner adorned with four crucifixes loomed over the crowd at the Church of the Transfiguration in Garwolin, a rural community 40 miles southeast of Warsaw. THERE WAS NO PLACE FOR YOU, CHRIST, AT OUR SCHOOL, the banner said. In any other modern secular country, that message might simply have been a routine protest against the separation of church and state. But in Poland, where approximately 90% of the population is Roman Catholic, and the church is the only institution powerful enough to challenge the state, a battle over crucifixes in the classroom last week sparked one of the most...
...white banner bearing the image of the Madonna, a dozen protesters proclaimed a fast; they would drink only spring water. Still other parishioners vowed to keep a daylong prayer vigil. The demonstration that unexpectedly erupted last week in the Church of St. Joseph the Worker, a parish in the Warsaw industrial suburb of Ursus, recalled dozens of similar protests during the bitter days of martial law. But in one respect it was remarkably different: for the first time Poles gathered to show their displeasure not with the Premier, Wojciech Jaruzelski, but with Jozef Cardinal Glemp, Primate of the influential Roman...
...nuclear-arms control will have to await a number of other developments. Before it would be prudent for the U.S. to make any adjustments in its negotiating positions in INF or START, he says, the Soviets will have to show flexibility in the talks between NATO and the Warsaw Pact on conventional forces that are due to resume in Vienna next month. They should agree to "confidence-building measures," like the ongoing negotiations over upgrading the Moscow-Washington hot line. In addition, says Sonnenfeldt, the Soviets will have to show their willingness to reduce international tensions and avoid the temptation...