Word: wyszynski
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...celebration. The country's Communist leaders were indefatigable in their search for ways to foul up the festivities. And now, even after the millennium has come to a quiet end, the squabble between church and state is as noisy as ever. Last week adamant Arch bishop Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski was once again at loggerheads with the tough secular party boss, Wladyslaw Gomulka. This time the issue was state regulation of seminaries...
...needs is unity and not intellectuals who produce neither bread nor steel but only chitchat." Six of the more outspoken students were suspended from the university, and Kolakowski was expelled from the party and accused of a long list of "crimes" including having "sat down to tea with Cardinal Wyszynski," the Polish primate, and having had a prolonged meeting with American Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski of Columbia University. When a group of Poland's leading artists and writers wrote letters to the Politburo demanding Kolakowski's reinstatement, 13 of the petitioners were also expelled or suspended from party membership...
...church refused to remove the rectors, and early this month the regime threatened to close some of the offending seminaries. With that, Cardinal Wyszynski last week summoned church leaders to an emergency meeting and issued a letter to be read in all Polish pulpits denouncing the government's attack and mobilizing national opinion against...
...continuing attempts of Wladyslaw Gomulka's Communist regime to sidetrack the millennial festivities have created a darkening mood of resentment that is spreading from the deeply religious to those who normally take a more impartial stance. The government has staged rival celebrations, temporarily detained bishops and Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski himself, dragged individual citizens off to police stations on grounds that they had been "planning to take a trip to Czestochowa," or "standing by" during anti-regime demonstrations. Tens of thousands of peasants have been left by the roadside, in their Sunday clothes and with bouquets in their hands, patiently...
...last week Gomulka seemed almost ready to strangle the cardinal. Government newspapers angrily accused Wyszynski of rupturing church-state relations and exploiting the church celebrations for his own "political ambitions." Radio Warsaw accused him of "fanning the conflict that he himself created for the sake of the most re actionary objectives." Zycie Warszawy, the government's prominent morning paper, came out for the cardinal's ouster from the church's leadership and his replacement by Archbishop Boleslaw Kominek of Wroclaw, the cardinal's second in command and a man considered more "reasonable" and pliant. But even...