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<text id=89TT2396>
<title>
Sep. 11, 1989: Harsh Homily
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Sep. 11, 1989 The Lonely War:Drugs
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
RELIGION, Page 77
Harsh Homily
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<p>Poland's Primate aggravates a Catholic-Jewish controversy
</p>
<p> Jewish outrage over a Carmelite convent at Auschwitz seemed
to be settling into a tense stalemate. Then Poland's Roman
Catholic Primate, Jozef Cardinal Glemp, sparked a new flare-up.
Speaking at his nation's holiest shrine on Aug. 26, the Cardinal
voiced Polish resentment with words that struck Jews -- and many
Christians -- as anti-Semitic.
</p>
<p> "Dear Jewish people, do not talk with us from the position
of a nation raised beyond all others," admonished Glemp. "Your
power lies in the mass media easily at your disposal." Admitting
that Poles had mistreated Jews in the past, he insisted that
Jewish businessmen also "ignored and disdained Poles." Glemp
said seven Jewish protesters who invaded the cloistered grounds
in July were "apprehended before the sisters were killed or the
convent destroyed" -- an inflammatory misrepresentation of the
demonstrators' intentions. Glemp glossed over the fact that
four Cardinals had agreed that the nuns would be moved by last
February, and that one of them, the local archbishop, had since
suspended that deal.
</p>
<p> As Western Jewish organizations reacted with anger and
indignation, the official daily newspaper of Poland's
Solidarity movement expressed "sorrow and regret" over Glemp's
words. Although Pope John Paul II has eloquently decried
anti-Semitism, the Vatican continues to insist that this
controversy is purely local. But with the latest international
uproar, it is obvious that the Pontiff must persuade his fellow
Poles to settle matters or risk a poisoning of Jewish-Catholic
relations for years to come.
</p>
</body></article>
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