The World - News from Aug. 27, 1985
Cardinal Josef Glemp, the primate of Poland, said that Roman Catholics will not support Poland’s Communist government unless it stops propagating atheist values. Speaking at a religious shrine in Czestochowa attended by an estimated 200,000 pilgrims, Glemp condemned Marxism as a system whose “inspiration is based not on the force of thoughts but on the notion of force.” He rejected criticism in the state news media that the church is meddling in politics.
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