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Underlying the rhetoric lay an important shift in Vatican policy that the new Pope has introduced. Popes John XXIII and Paul VI inaugurated Vatican Ostpolitik in contrast to the policies of Pius XII, the coldest of cold warriors, who even found Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the venerable Primate of Poland, too soft on Communism. Their theory was that concessions for the Polish church could best be won by high-level negotiations between the Vatican and Warsaw. Now, just as he had done when he was a Polish bishop himself, John Paul was announcing that the Polish church leaders ought...
...working toward them in his native land, the Pope must consider who will succeed Cardinal Wyszynski, who is now 77 and reported to be in precarious health. Two new Polish Cardinals are among those presumed to be candidates for Primate...
...flight from Rome to Warsaw, John Paul was able to eat hardly any breakfast and told the 60 reporters and photographers on his plane that he would need to "contain my emotion" during the trip. As soon as the papal jet landed, black-robed Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, 77, the Primate of Poland, mounted the steps into the plane. John Paul's shrewd former mentor has maneuvered for three decades to guide the Polish church through the darkest days of Stalinist repression into an era of uneasy coexistence with the country's Communist rulers. The extent of the church...
...process of choosing Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, the Nobel Committee scrutinized 50 nominees, including Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, Finnish President Urho Kekkonen, and the beleaguered committee of Soviet dissidents who have monitored the 1975 Helsinki human rights accords. The selection committee, chosen - at Nobel's behest - by the Norwegian parliament, cloaks its deliberations in se crecy but draws on a wide range of sources for nominees. Among those consulted: representatives of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, officials of various governments, scholars and previous Peace Prize laureates. Sadat, says Nobel Institute Director Jacob Sverdrup, received "between ten and 20" nominations...
...Peter and spiritual leader of some 700 million Roman Catholics. As the Cardinals of the church filed forward to pay him homage, he spoke warmly, and often at length, with each, disregarding the presence of television cameras. The most electric moment came when Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski knelt to kiss the papal ring. John Paul lifted his stern old mentor to his feet, embraced him, then kissed the Polish primate's own ring...