Word: wyszynski
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...Look of the Land. Since his release Wyszynski has spent much of his time riding in his old Ford (license H-76-003) along Poland's bumpy roads to check on the conditions of each of his 24 dioceses. What he finds on these trips is a country warming itself in the recovered comforts of free talk and free worship. Communists and liberal intellectuals, in fact, complain bitterly that Gomulka's necessary compromises with the church are turning Poland back to "superstition" -although the more sophisticated clergy that is growing up in Poland under Wyszynski is very different...
...Poles turned out at the shrine where King John Casimir dedicated his throne and country to Our Lady Queen of Poland just 300 years ago. On an open-air altar high above the plains surrounding the shrine, a mere speck of red to most of the crowd, Cardinal Wyszynski celebrated Mass, opening a nine-year novena that will end in the 1,000th anniversary of Poland's beginning as a Christian land...
Pending issues. With poverty souring the country's mood, both cardinal and commissar are constantly trying to damp down the tension between them. Pending issues, which will also constitute a major part of Wyszynski's agenda in his talks with the Pope...
...Religious education. Gomulka's granting as much as he did was a concession he is hard put to defend before his fellow Communists, who see Poland's youth slipping away from them into the Catholic orbit. But Wyszynski is known to be in favor of reintroducing the parochial schools, and there is some laymen's pressure to make religious education compulsory for all-a demand that Gomulka cannot possibly grant and Wyszynski will not make...
...Rome, in addition to seeking guidance on these issues, Wyszynski may be working out a plan of action for the nerve-racking eventuality of Gomulka's political fall or replacement by Soviet intervention. He is also doing his best to win over the brassbound conservatives who still think that the stinging intransigence of old Cardinal Sapieha was the only way to deal with Communists...