Word: wyszynski
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...year, factories suddenly stopped or slowed down deliveries of materials for church buildings, and the army started drafting seminary students a few at a time. Two religious holidays were declared to be official workdays. Then the party threatened to wipe out religious education in the schools, which Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski had won from Gomulka after months of struggle four years...
...real test of strength will come in the elections early next month. Four years ago, in exchange for concessions to the church, Cardinal Wyszynski urged Catholics to vote for Gomulka's candidates...
...Poland waited to hear what the Cardinal would advise now. Wyszynski has said nothing yet. But a few weeks ago, he circulated a grim private letter to all of Poland's 15.000 priests, warning them to "prepare for the worst . . . even jail or physical harm." Empty Streets. Churches are still full, for Poles are highly religious, and the vast quantity of vodka they consume is hardly sufficient solace for a life that is endlessly drab. Industrial production is up, and food supplies are adequate, but Warsaw, like most Polish cities, is bleak and shabby; at night...
...both Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka and Catholic Primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the Zielona Gora outburst-the second spontaneous flare-up of church-state conflict in five weeks (TIME, May9)-was a grave embarrassment. Each is aware that ultimately Christ or the Commissar must back down in Poland, but each also dreads anything that might spark a nationwide uprising and thereby provoke the Soviets to give Warsaw the Budapest treatment. But in troubled Poland, the hands of both leaders are increasingly being forced...
Just after Christmas, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Poland's Roman Catholic primate, preached a sermon in Warsaw that could be read last week as defiance in advance. The cardinal spoke of "maternity wards which have become mortuaries," and said that "the doctor should continue to be a doctor, a defender of life, not a gravedigger and murderer." But as far as Poland's government was concerned, the nation's 1,000 abortion clinics (or clinics for "interrupted pregnancy") were not doing enough of a job. The government is alarmed about Poland's birth rate, the highest...