Word: wyszynski
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...Gniezno and Poznan on the very days last week when official church celebrations got under way in those two cities. Trains to Czestochowa will be sporadic at best; many roads will be "under repair." The government has launched a massive propaganda campaign to discredit the church, calling Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, its tough, outspoken leader, a neo-fascist and a friend of Germany. Posters showing Nazi war crimes in Poland are going up everywhere, sarcastically captioned: "Grant and beg forgiveness"-a quote from the letter sent by Polish prelates last fall inviting German bishops to Czestochowa in a gesture of reconciliation...
...Ecumenical Council ended in Rome last month, the Polish delegation headed by Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, acting in the truest spirit of Christian reconciliation, invited East and West Germany's 54 bishops, archbishops and cardinals to attend the ceremonies in Czestochowa next May marking the 1,000th anniversary of the conversion of Poland's King Mieczyslaw I. Wrote the Polish churchmen: "We grant forgiveness and ask forgiveness. Let us forget. No polemics. No more cold...
...invitation was gratefully accepted, but the gesture to the hated Germans left Poland's Communist regime sputtering with rage. Just how seriously Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka was taking it became clear last week when the government refused to allow Cardinal Wyszynski to leave Poland for a trip to Rome. The reason, explained an officer, was that on his last trip there the Cardinal had engaged in political activity harmful to Poland...
Bitter History. Near the end of the Ecumenical Council in Rome, Poland's delegation, headed by Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, decided to ask East-and West-Germany's 54 bishops, archbishops and cardinals to attend the 1,000th anniversary of the conversion of Poland's King Mieczyslaw I, to be celebrated in Czestochowa next May 3. In a remarkable 17-page invitation, the Polish primates reviewed the bitter record of Polish-German relations, concluded it had been an accident of history. "We grant forgiveness and we ask forgiveness," they said. "Let us seek to forget. No polemics...
...Poland is 96.5% Catholic, and Cardinal Wyszynski was greeted on his return from Rome by a rapturous crowd of 1,000 at Warsaw's Gdansk Station. Another 10,000 jammed St. John's Cathedral to hear him proclaim: "We served our homeland well in Rome. Anything else you hear you can put down as a fairy tale. Treat it as the leaves dropping from the trees." He was besieged afterwards with bouquets and hymns...