Polish Regime Grants
Concessions to Church
BONN, Germany — (NC) — The
Polish communist regime in the
new thaw in its relations with the
Church has agreed to release to the
Church some blocked bank ac
counts and to allocate enough pa
per supplies so that the foremost
Polish Catholic paper can increase
its circulation by more than 50.
The new conciliatory gestures
were revealed here by KNA, the
German Catholic news agency.
KNA said (Oct. 20) that the con
cessions were made last August by
Zenon Kliszko, a top member of the
politburo of the Polish Communist
party, in the course of a three-hour
discussion with Archbishop Karol
Wojtyla of Cracow.
The Kliszko-Wojtyla meeting,
which took place in Wawel, the an
cient hilltop castle compound of
the kings of Poland in Cracow, pri
marily concerned problems within
the Cracow archdiocese.
But it did result in the freeing
of hitherto blocked Church funds
amounting to “several million zlo
tys.” (The zloty at the free rate
brings about 4.2 U.S. cents, and
this figure would thus automatical
ly be in the hundreds of thousands
of dollars.)
Kliszko agreed, according to
KNA, to a greater newsprint al
lotment to Tygodnik Powszechny,
Poland’s leading Catholic weekly,
which is published in Cracow, so
that it can increase its circulation
from 30,000 to 50,000. Editors of
the weekly have long maintained
that while their paper allocation
limits them to 30,000 copies, the
demand for the paper is such that
they could triple circulation easi
ly.
BUT THE MAIN FOCUS of the
conversation between Kliszko and
Archbishop Wojtyla centered on
the question of providing for the
religious needs of the Catholics of
Nowa Huta, the postwar “model”
steel-producing town built on the
' outskirts of Cracow.
It was indicated that a church
will at long last be built in Nowa
Huta, which now has a population
of more than 100,000.
In September of 1960, Stefan
Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Po
land, publiclj accused the com
munist regime of breaking prom
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churches. He specifically mention
ed Nowa Huta in his charges.
The issue of churchless Nowa
Huta is perhaps a classic example
of the seeming ups and the very
real downs of the communist ap
proach to the need for churches.
Some 2,000 persons rioted in
Nowa Huta in April of 1960 as a
result of repressive government
action concerning a church which
the people sought there.
Howa Huta is a planned com
munity built since the end of the
war around the new Lenin Steel
works, the country’s largest steel
mill. When the city was planned,
it was to be an ideal “socialist
town,” and thus no provision was
made for a church.
Repeated requests for a church
from workers at the steel mill were
turned down during the Stalinist
era, and the city’s Catholics had
to go several miles to get to Mass.
With the advent of Wladyslaw
Gomulka to power in 1956, govern
ment permission to build a church
was granted. Funds for its erec
tion were collected throughout the
Cracow archdiocese, and Church au
thorities sponsored a contest for
the best design for the new build
ing. The prize-winning plans called
for a church of contemporary de
sign with a capacity for 5,000 peo
ple. It was to be dedicated to Our
Lady, Queen of Poland.
In 1957 it was reported that
the late Archbishop Eugeniusz
Baziak, apostolic administrator of
Cracow, had dedicated a cross at
the site selected for the church —
ironically located at the cross
roads of Marx, Great October (Rus
sian Revolution) and Mayakovsky
streets. A year later, Radio War
saw even announced that construc
tion of the church had begun.
But in 1959 there came news
that the government had revoked
its construction permit, and that
a school was to be built on the site
instead.
THE DEMONSTRATION o f
April 27, 1960, reportedly began
when workmen started to dig up
the cross that stood on the site of
the long hoped-for church. Demon
strators erected barricades across
a street leading from the site to
the city hall, which was later set
on fire.
When police arrived, they used
clubs and tear gas bombs to dis
perse the crowd. Eventually, calm
was restored. But there was still
no church in Nowa Huta. It remain
ed an ideal “socialist town.”
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Sacred Heart Bazaar Set
The annual bazaar for the benefit pf the
building fund of Sacred Heart College, Bel
mont, will be held on Saturday, November 13
from ten o’clock in the morning until eleven
o’clock at night.
Homemade candies and cakes, aprons and
clothing accessories, hosiery and handkerchiefs
and many other items suitable for gifts will be
available at the bazaar. Dolls which have been
specially dressed will be arranged in a display.
The door prize this year will be one thou
sand dollars in cash, and a number of other
prizes will be distributed during the evening.
The social aspect is an equally important
feature of the bazaar, as it attracts alumnae
and friends from far and near each November.
An elaborate smorgasbord supper will be served
from five to eight in the evening. Light re
freshments will be available all day.
Cuban Parents Find
Children in Florida
MIAMI — A new chapter is being written
in the story of children who were sent unac
companied out of Cuba to the United States.
The parents are now arriving.
The first couple to be reunited with their
children since Fidel Castro began to permit
a new exodus of refugees are Mr. and Mrs.
Antonio G. Cancio-Bello.
Three years ago, they sent their two sons,
Antonio, now 15, and Jose Manuel, now 11, off
to Florida. The parents finally managed to get
away themselves this month, fleeing in a 24
foot boat borrowed from a brother-in-law and
carrying sixteen other people.
The sons were cared for by the Catholic
Welfare Bureau of Miami which runs an exten
sive program for unaccompanied Cuban chil
dren.
“We thank God for saving the boys from
communist terror and atheistic teachings,”
Cancio-Bello said here.
“These three years,” he said slowly, “have
been terrible years for us, particularly for their
mother. Several times she has been hospitalized
for heart ailments and has been very depressed
on account of this separation.”
Antonio, the eldest, has been living at Opa
Locka Shelter for Cuban Boys. He is a student
at St. John the Apostle school, Hialeah. Jose
has been living in a foster home and attends
classes at St. James school, North Miami.
According to the Cancio-Bellos, the Castro
regime craftily provided plenty of food in Ca
marioca, port of embarkation, in order to cre
ate a favorable impression among newsmen
from other countries.
Elsewhere on the island, they said, there
is a great shortage of food.
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are in the process of sewing together felt
‘.‘Christmas Stockings” for the Good Shepherd
Convent of Hayesville, N.C. The stockings are
created and designed by the members of the
society. The society’s aim is to complete fifty
stockings and fill them with toys and candy in
time for Christmas. The ladies meet in the
homes of its members every Tuesday. Any
ladies who are interested in giving of their time
and talent to this worthy project are asked to
call the Catholic Chaplains Office for further
information. Hard at work in the photograph
above are Mrs. Frank Rezeli and Mrs. William ►
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