Word: wyszynski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist-ruled countries, Pius XII had to find a harrowing way between the extremes of a tough anti-Communist line that might have destroyed the church through reprisals and a collaborationist line that might have destroyed the church just as surely through spiritual surrender. Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski and his precarious stand-off with the Red regime has shown that toughness can be combined with shrewd compromise. In the Western countries, the Pope took a bold political step in 1949 when he excommunicated all Catholics who "knowingly and freely . . . defend and spread Communism...
...tenaciously to the Roman Catholic Church, not only as their faith, but also as the most enduring symbol of their fervent nationalism. Almost the first thing that Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka did when he came to power after the anti-Soviet uprisings of 1956 was to release Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski from detention and give to Poland, which is 95% Catholic, a degree of religious freedom unknown in any other Communist nation. That was a concession won, not a benefit conferred, and ever since, uneasy has been the truce between church and Communist state...
...press, the story soon spread. Last week in a letter that was read from every pulpit in his city, the Bishop of Czestochowa denounced the government's action as "an insult to our national sanctuary." That evening 20,000 Catholics gathered for a special Mass, heard Cardinal Wyszynski himself deliver the apostolic blessing. Later the cardinal issued a pastoral letter charging that the police had arrested at least one monk and several priests and pilgrims...
...calling a consistory to fill out the College of Cardinals, now down to 55 from its full complement of 70. Of the remaining 55, two have long been prevented by political conditions from fulfilling their functions (Cardinals Mindszenty and Stepinac, prisoners of Communism), one-Poland's Cardinal Wyszynski-has been seriously hampered by difficult communications, and another -Peking's Cardinal Tien-by ill health. And in all too many cases the crushing load of responsibility in Rome falls on such old men as 85-year-old Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi, whose responsibilities Cardinal Stritch was to have shared...
...limited nonsanguinary revolution brought less. In Poland, Western newspapers are to be had, and citizens complain about the government with something approaching freedom. In Hungary only newspaper offices and high officials get printed news from the West, and the people keep their bitterness to themselves. In Poland fearless Cardinal Wyszynski goads the administration; in Hungary Cardinal Mindszenty hides in the American legation. The Hungarian writers who inspired and helped lead the revolution seldom dare to write even sly gibes (though they regularly and stubbornly send delegations to demand the release of Novelist Tibor Dery, intellectual leader of the revolt...