Render unto Caesar: church and state in Poland.

From: Monthly Review | Date: December 1, 1986| Author: Tighe, Carl | Copyright information

RENDER UNTO CAESAR: CHURCH AND STATE IN POLAND

Cast your mind back to August 1980--to the media images that flowed from the Gdansk shipyard: a priest kneeling, hearing confessions, Walesa at an open-air mass, pictures of the Polish Pope pinned to the shipyard gates, Walesa's huge biro with the pictures of the Pope and the Vatican--yes, it was a very pious affair. For most Poles, and indeed for most observers from the West, it seems that from a long and troubled Polish h...

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