Word: wyszynski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most moving pleas came from a man who had enjoyed his own freedom less than two weeks-Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. Preparing to go to Rome to receive his red hat from the Pope (when he was made cardinal in 1953, he did not dare leave Poland for fear that the Communists would not allow him to return), Wyszynski preached his first sermon since his release from Red imprisonment (TIME, Nov. 12). He did not mention Hungary, but his words held bitter aptness: "We were proud of the soth century. Yet that first half of the century...
Have Faith. Two nights before Mindszenty's dramatic release by the Hungarian rebels, another Iron Curtain prelate was freed: Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. Prodded by fervent demands for his release from all over Poland, the Gomulka regime sent emissaries to Wyszynski's monastery exile in the Carpathian Mountains to bring him back. Last week the cardinal was driven by a government sedan through a cold rain to the grey stone archbishop's palace in Warsaw. Next day, after meeting with clergy from all over Poland, he went out before the waiting crowds. They cheered, wept...
...Wyszynski sounded more conciliatory than Mindszenty. Said he: "We have won. Have faith in God. I did. Through faith in God all things are possible ... I hope that quiet and secure times have now begun for you and your church. It is up to you to keep the peace...
Unlike Mindszenty, Cardinal Wyszynski had not even had a mock trial. After denouncing Poland's Red regime, he was arrested in 1953, simply disappeared from view. He, too, was moved constantly, was guarded at one time by 60 security police. The cardinals' steadfastness under persecution, Pope Pius XII had said, was "a spectacle of spectacles to the world, to angels...
...bishops or apostolic administrators in Poland are still imprisoned, detained, or barred from exercising their spiritual authority, and many nuns and priests are still imprisoned in the satellites. Archbishop Joseph Beran of Prague and Yugoslavia's Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac are held by the Communists. Both Cardinals Mindszenty and Wyszynski could again share the fate of those prisoners; the two cardinals' freedom might turn out to be only an episode. If so, it would not be forgotten. Like a sudden flash, it lighted up the dark scene and showed clearly the continuing, fervent faith of the satellite peoples...