Word: wyszynski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leader of the church, which is Roman Catholic in Poland, is Cardinal Wyszynski. He, single-handedly, is credited by many with having averted a Polish civil war. By urging support, instead of opposition to Gomulka's regime, he consolidated the political power in the country, and helped to gain new recognition and prestige for his own institution. The church seems to have gained "relative autonomy" from the state today, but of course is still far from its pre-war position...
...majority. Even though jamming of foreign broadcasts has been stopped, censorship is still very much in effect in the press and radio. Brzezinski reports that toward the end of his stay in Poland, there was a danger sign of increasing censorship, as he learned that a statement of Cardinal Wyszynski had been repressed...
...fissure seemed to be opening between Poland's Cardinal Wyszynski and the Communist government of Wladyslaw Gomulka. Recently the cardinal used the pages of a Roman Catholic weekly to warn that any priest collaborating with the Communist-run "religious" organization called Pax would risk "canonical sanctions." The regime suppressed the issue, ordered the newspaper banned from all newsstands and bookstores-a surprise to Polish churchmen who noted that even Communist publications have recently been critical...
...Western world are deeply indebted to you for your dramatic account [May 20] of Cardinal Wyszynski. It tells beautifully, in vivid realism, the story of a noble primate who is an astute statesman and diplomat as well as a great religious leader. I speak as a Protestant, in deep sympathy with the cardinal's patriotic service to his country and to all mankind as well...
Before getting ready to return to Poland and his own precarious balancing act with the Reds, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski last week formally accepted his titular Roman church (a parish in Rome is traditionally allocated to every cardinal). The squalid neighborhood surrounding the medieval Santa Maria in Trastevere is heavily Communist, but it turned out to give him Rome's biggest welcome to any cardinal within memory. From the altar Wyszynski asked for the peoples' prayers "for myself and for my poor martyred country. Poland has always been, is still today, and always will be the outer rampart...