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VATICAN CITY "I would like to be present among you personally to render finalhomage to the primate. God has decided otherwise Pope John PaulIIsaidin a recordedmessage read at the Warsaw funeral of CardinalStefan Wyszynski. •
There is no doubt that the pope would have travelled to Poland for the funeral of the man he described as the "keystone of the unity of the church in Poland for the last thirty years.
Suggesting he . may yet make another visit to his homeland Pope John Paul II told the 300,000 poles at the funeral: "I hope that God will restore my W ojtyla when they strength and grant me the returned to Rome in a state opportunity to carry out of shock at the death of the what I feel. Pope John Paul I they had The pope has often hinted elected only two months that he would like to return before. next year for the, 600th Cardinal Wyszynski was anniversary of the return one of the three cardinals of the revered icon of Our who attended the elections Lady of Czestochowa, to of John XXIII, Paul VI, Poland. John Paul I and John Paul Pope John Paul has made no secret of his admiration One measure of the stafor the cardinal primate ture of Cardinal Wyswho steered the Catholic zynski is a conversation church in Poland during that is said to have the dangerous years, when occurred in Milan, Italy, Cardinal Wojtyla was ris- where Cardinal Wojtyla, ing in the diocese of later to become the first Cracow on his path to the Polish Pope in history, was papacy. a ttending a meeting. Commentators believe "What percentage of Italthat it was Cardinal Wys- ian cardinals ski?" Cardizynski's lobbying that nal Wojtyla asked. Told s teered the cardinals that none of the Italian carthoughts towards Cardinal dinals skied, he said,
"Great man of history" "That's a pity. Forty per- the pope's triumphal envoy, the Polish president cent of the Polish cardinals return to his homeland he Jablonski and three vice ski." praised Cardinal Wys- prime ministers were "But how can that be?" zynski as the driving force present. his Italian confrere asked. behind the Polish church. Absent were Stanislaw "There are only two cardi- At the funeral Mass, to Kania first secretary of the nals in Poland." "Wys- which Pope John Paul sent Polish communist party zynski counts for 60 Cardinal Casaroli, Vatican and de facto head of percent," the future pope Secretary of State as his government, and prime replied with a smile. The affection between the t wo Poles was evident at Pope John Paul's inauguration when, in a break with normal ceremonial precedence, Cardinal Wyszynski was the second of the cardinals to pledge obedience to the new pope. The pope stood up as the cardinal approached and when Cardinal Wyszynski knelt at his feet, the pope knelt also and held the carPERTH, WA: JUNE 4-10, 1981 dinal in a strong embrace. TELEPHONE: (09) 328 1388 At Czestochowa, *during
A statue mounted prominently on the driveway into Aquinas College symbolises a movement from e arth to infinity a ccording to its author, Dan Mazzotti, who came from Italy to Australia 29 years ago and has been senior art master at the college for the past 13 years. The statue is made of synthetic resin built up over a steel core and ground to a finish with a tint suggestive of natural sandstone. To mark the feast day of Edmund Ignatius Rice, founder of the Christian Brothers, Archbishop Goody unveiled and later blessed the new s tatue before an assembly of students last Monday. C ommissioned by the students of Aquinas Junior School who have raised funds to pay for it, the statue echoes the theme Come To Me. The face of Christ is framed in sections of a cross that extend from the abstract body that rises from the pedestal in an infinite movement of infinity as an e xpression of the human nature of Christ. R epresenting the integration of the religious and secular in education the outstretched arms of two C ollege on Monday after the ceremony of unveiling and blessing boys merge into the Mazzotti discusses with Archbishop Goody the theme of his body of Christ. sculpture Come To Me.
Lifetime of trial firmed r esolve The late polish primate was headed for a lifetime of struggle and confrontation when in 1948 he was appointed to lead Poland's senior see of Warsaw and Gniezni. The signs of struggle were in the air in 1953 when A rchbishop Wyszynski was nominated cardinal but he dared not leave Poland lest he be forbidden to return. That same year he refused to condemn Bishop Kaczmarek of Kielce who had been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Cardinal Wyszynski was arrested, charged for breaking a 1950 churchstate agreement and was imprisoned for three years. "Better to be a priest who is laughed at than a czar who is given glory," cardinal Wyszynski wrote during his three-year house arrest and his whereabouts kept secret. In 1956, when the cardinal emerged he attributed his release to the Black Madonna. Leaving the train in Rome on his way to receiving the red hat promised while he was under arrest, he said "I bring you the blessing of Our Lady of Czestochowa." In June 1956 workers' and students' riots erupted in Poznan and the entire country was in ferment. In October a bloodless palace revolution overthrew the hardline Stalinist
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Kania, however, delivered a strong eulogy for Cardinal Wyszynski the day before at a party conference in Warsaw. minister General Jaruz"Not only a great priest elski. has died, but also an emiBut it was noted that the nent citizen, a man who holders of these two offices understood the imporhave never taken part in tance of relationships any religious ceremony between the church and the since Poland has been socialist state," Kania said. ruled by an atheistic com"He will unquestionably munist government. enter into history as such."
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