Communist Poland has a continuing cold war all its own, between the Roman Catholic faithful of Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski and the Red bureaucrats of Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka. Recently, the cold war has been getting hotter.
For months the cardinal has fumed be cause Gomulka failed to convene a long dormant committee on church-state relations intended to review political harassment of religious activities. Finally, in a series of Lenten sermons, Wyszynski sharply criticized the regime in two at tacks on state-sponsored atheism, a third on birth control and the Polish system of...
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