Sunday, December 10th, 2006...10:37 am
Glemp Resigns
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Cardinal Józef Glemp, Primate of Poland, submitted his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI, who accepted it.
Glemp spent his youth in a Nazi slave labor camp and later went on to be the spiritual leader of the Solidarność movement, using the pulpit to call for civil disobedience during Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski’s imposition of marshall law. Actions such as this prevented Jaruzelski from consolidating his authority over Poland and helped show the weakness of the totalitarian system.
Glemp used the church as an instrument to empower the people over the powerful. Maybe some religious leaders here can learn from that example.
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