Word: wyszynski
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...gatherings were peaceful, but authorities indicated that they would not hesitate to show force if necessary. Early last week police units broke up a religious gathering at Warsaw's Victory Square and removed a flower cross dedicated to the memory of Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who had been a defiant symbol of Polish nationalism. Four days later, as worshipers prayed around a newly rebuilt cross, policemen moved into the crowd, checking identity papers and taking some people away for interrogation or searching. This time they let the cross remain...
Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, 79, Roman Catholic Primate of Poland for more than 30 years, fiery advocate of the faith and defiant symbol of Polish nationalism under Soviet-dominated Communist regimes. An astute political infighter and vigorous defender of social and political rights, he mastered a precarious form of cooperation with the commissars that preserved the church's independence and helped pave the way for the development of the Solidarity trade-union federation...
...preoccupied with the momentous changes that their country has undergone since the signing of the Gdansk agreement by the government and the unionists a year ago. The party has been challenged and to a considerable extent reformed; the Catholic Church, though now deprived of its venerable primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died last May, has become an arbiter between party and union; and Solidarity has grown into an organization of 10 million members, the only independent trade union in the Communist bloc. The climate of fear that lay over the land for more than three decades has gradually eased: people...
...major moderating influence over the union during the past year has been the Roman Catholic hierarchy, especially the late Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the primate of Poland. A trusted adviser to Walesa, Wyszynski helped mediate settlements of some potentially disastrous labor-government confrontations. The hierarchy has made some significant gains of its own, such as getting the right to broadcast Sunday Mass and erect new churches. Still, some observers feel that the church's political effectiveness may be diminished as other popular institutions develop within Poland. But Kania, who last week praised the country's religious leaders...
Glemp will be no Wyszynski. Prior to the appointment, Cracow's Father Andrzej Bardecki remarked that Wyszynski was "the unofficial dictator of the church, with prerogatives like no one else in the his tory of the church in Poland." But, while his successor is likely to be more collegial, the shrewd Wyszynski made sure that a well-prepared primate would still be in the thick of things...