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Bishop Daniel A. Cr6nin will ordain three young men for the diocesan priesthood at ceremon ies to be held at 11 a.m. Satur day June 11 at St. Mary's Ca thedral. Clergy, religious and laity are invited to attend. Priests wishing to concelebrate are asked to bring amice, alb, cincture and stole, while those wishing to participate in the laying on of hands ceremony should wear cassock and surplice. Those to be ordained are Rev. Mr. Richard G. Andrade, Re\·. Mr. Paul A. Caron and Rev. Mr. John J. Perry. All studied for
FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
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By Jerry Filteau NC News Service When Pope John Paul II as cended Peter's throne in Octo ber 1978 there was scarcely a doubt that the strong-willed son of Poland would soon make a triumphal return to his home land. Less than nine months later, June 2·10, 1979, the former cardinal-archbishop of Cracow was back in Poland.
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FAll RIVER, MASS., FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1983 600th anniversary of the arrival in Poland of the revered icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa, pa troness of the nation and sym bol of Polish Catholicism. But the path to the second visit planned for June 16-23, has been a winding, rocky road with roadblocks marking the ups and downs of Polish politics. In Poland there was the 1980 Even before that first papal rise of the Polish worker move· trip was over a clear signal was ment, Solidarity, accompanied sent for a second one. Bidding by fears of a Soviet invasion farewell to the pope at Cracow's and occupation. airport, Poland's aging primate,
At the Vatican there was the Cardinal Stefan Wysznski, said, May, 1981 assassination attempt "May Our Lady of Czestochowa upon the pope which left doubts bring you back here for the for a while as to whether he 'wedding feast of Cana' of her would be able to resume his jubilee." foreign travels. But Aug. 30, 1981, Poland's It was, of course, a calculated public invitation to the pope to state-run television network an return in August 1982 for the nounced that Pope John Paul
the priesthood at St. John's Seminary, Brighton. Rev. Mr. Andrade Rev. Mr. Andrade is a native of St. Jacques parish, Taunton and the son of Frederick P. and Jeannine (Simard) Andrade. He has one brother and Qne sister. Born Sept. 24, 1957, he gradu ated from St. Jacques grammar school and Coyle and Cassidy High School before entering St. John's Seminary. He served as a transitional deacon at St. John the Evangelist parish, At tleboro. Rev. Mr. Andrade will offer Turn to page thirteen
had accepted an invitation to visit Poland in 1982 to celebrate the sixth centenary of Our Lady of Czestochowa. In November 1981, Archbishop (now Cardinal) Jozef Glemp of Warsaw and Gniezno, successor of Cardinal Wyszynski, who had died in May, formally invited the pope for the following Aug· ust. Two weeks later the Polish government publicly expressed "satisfaction" over the plans. Barely three weeks after that, however, on Dec. 13, 1981, the Polish government declared martial law and cracked down on Solidarity, interning thou sands of a'ctivist workers and political dissidents. The papal trip seemed dubious. On Christmas Eve, however, Archbishop Glemp declared that the papal trip was still on.
$8 Per Year In February 1982, Pope John Paul indicated that he still hoped to make the trip to Poland that year but also that events in Po land had made the timing un· certain. A high official in Poland at the same time said the trip had not been canceled, but would depend on the domestic situation in the next few months. In early March, rumors sur faced in the Western press that Soviet authorities were pressur ing the Polish government to cancel the trip. At about the same time, Arch bishop Glemp spoke openly of a possible postponement and sources close to Cardinal Fran ciszek Macharski of Cracow, Po land's other key churchman, were quoted as s~ying that the Turn to Page Thirteen