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Poland's powerful Catholic Church has also played a key role in the national renewal. Archbishop Jozef Glemp, named last week to succeed the late Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski as Primate (see RELIGION), promised to continue the Cardinal's policies. But, though the church has won some important concessions, such as the right to broadcast Sunday Mass, some clerics fear that its influence as a unique voice of Polish nationalism may diminish with the rise of political pluralism...
With Poland's internal wrangling and threats from the Soviet Union, Glemp assumes one of Catholicism's most difficult thrones. At 52, he is the youngest of the 21 bishops who head Polish dioceses. But he enjoyed the confidence of the previous primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died May 28. Before he became Bishop of the Warmia region in 1979, Glemp spent a dozen years in Wyszynski's secretariat, first as an adviser on canon law, then as the Cardinal's private chaplain...
Glemp says he enjoyed a "father and son" relationship with Wyszynski...
...climactic events of last year, Wyszynski supported the cause of striking Polish workers, although his early public calls for moderation led some militants to suspect him of siding with the government. He ultimately played a crucial mediating role, meeting with both Solidarity Union Leader Lech Walesa and Communist Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, and thereby helped stave off a possibly catastrophic confrontation. Said Walesa, who continually looked to Wyszynski for inspiration and advice: "The Cardinal's teachings brought us to the point we all dreamed about." Last week millions of Poles could say the same thing about...
DIED. Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, 79, astute, autocratic Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, and Primate of Poland's Roman Catholic Church; of abdominal cancer; in Warsaw (see WORLD...