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Caught between two pressures, Glemp may find himself in embarrassing difficulty. The hand-picked successor to the late Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski lacks Wyszynski's charisma and sure hand for balancing accommodation with the Communists with, when necessary, forthright independence. Some recent decisions of the Polish church, as a result, have been made not by Glemp alone but by a council of the episcopate that includes Cracow's Franciszek Cardinal Macharski and seven senior bishops. The council's communal decisions could yet become more defiant toward the regime than Glemp would like. -By Spencer Davidson. Reported by John...
Such a challenge to church authority would have been unthinkable in the days of Glemp's predecessor, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died in 1981. The much revered prelate had preserved, almost singlehanded, the authority of the Polish church during more than three decades of Communist rule...
...truth was best articulated by Coward in a moment of rare revelation: "Work is much more fun than fun." Only for composers, of course; for the recipients of Noël's and Cole's enormous labor, fun is far more fun than work. -By Stefan Kanfer...
...only certain that her final volume is a testimony to a green talent and a mature spirit. Each page refreshingly repeats the invaluable moral lesson of her diary: if it is implausible to bid farewell to anguish, it is impossible to close the book on hope . - By Stefan Kanfer...
...Stefan Kanfer...