Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain

130 PIOTR H. KOSICKI ics did not automatically mean that the Poles would be able to make themselves seen and heard in Rome. As J ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 131 set of primary sources (published and unpublished). The principal chronological focus will be the year ...

132 PIOTR H. KOSICKI between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of Poland. The Council also triggered an efflorescence of in ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 133 er Communist-run countries with significant Catholic popula- tions, Poland’s primate never stood trial ...

134 PIOTR H. KOSICKI pursued with considerably less vigor than in other countries.26 True, the State Office of Confessional Affa ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 135 after the arrest of Primate Wyszyński, that the Catholic Church had never fared better in Poland than ...

136 PIOTR H. KOSICKI Meanwhile, a consensus rapidly developed in Poland across confessional and political lines that Poland had ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 137 tional law, and I see no obstacles that would make the Church’s nominations contingent on internationa ...

138 PIOTR H. KOSICKI pate had reached a new agreement with the new leadership of the Polish United Workers’ Party. De-Stalinizat ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 139 tary, Władysław Gomułka, even suggested that the new move- ment—known as ZNAK—run a handful of parliam ...

140 PIOTR H. KOSICKI the fundamental concern was that the Catholic Church would only adopt a façade of reform so as to appeal mo ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 141 ence of what Wyszyński called the Great Novena. The latter rep- resented a decade’s worth of preparati ...

142 PIOTR H. KOSICKI When the Second Vatican Council opened on October 11, 1962, twenty-six of Poland’s sixty-four bishops were ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 143 The Public Relations of Primate Wyszyński In Rome, Wyszyński resided at the Polish Institute at via Pi ...

144 PIOTR H. KOSICKI have rated Wyszyński as having been one of the most influential Council fathers.57 The primate’s internatio ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 145 In 1962, the primate recommended Rev. Szczepan Wesoły, the pastor of the Polish émigré community in Ro ...

146 PIOTR H. KOSICKI The final means by which the Polish bishops attempted to steer the reception of Vatican II involved network ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 147 Wyszyński was so incensed that he complained personally both to the French primate and to Pope Paul VI ...

148 PIOTR H. KOSICKI The Business of the Council To determine which bishops would go to Rome, Wyszyński estab- lished several gr ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 149 Lefebvre).72 The Polish primate explained that, having come from behind the Iron Curtain with the resp ...