Jozef Glemp.
Andrew Cuomo proudly closes Nassau OTB only on Roman Catholic Easter Sunday and Roman Catholic Palm Sunday. Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday and Greek Orthodox Palm Sunday do not count as "Easter Sunday" and "Palm Sunday" in the Empire of Andrew Cuom.
Glemp would be proud of Andrew.
See NY PML Sec 109 and NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3.
Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Poland Is Dead at 83
Mike Persson/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Cardinal Jozef Glemp, right,
with Pope John Paul II and President Lech Walesa and his wife, Danuta,
in Warsaw in 1991. Cardinal Glemp was a fitful ally of Mr. Walesa, the
Solidarity leader.
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Published: January 23, 2013
Cardinal Jozef Glemp, the spiritual leader of Poland’s Roman Catholics
for 25 years, who helped steer his nation through a historic and
relatively peaceful transition from Communism to democracy in 1989, but
who was dogged by allegations of anti-Semitism, died on Wednesday in
Warsaw. He was 83.
Jozef Kloch, a church spokesman, announced the death. The Polish news agency PAP said Cardinal Glemp had lung cancer.
For a thousand years, the church has been a repository of nationhood in
overwhelmingly Catholic Poland, and for decades Cardinal Glemp, as the
archbishop of Warsaw and Gniezno and the primate of Poland, was both
mediator and power broker in the struggle between the Communist
government and the resistance led by the Solidarity labor union.
His approach was nonconfrontational, urging calm when the government
declared martial law in 1981 and even when state security officers
murdered a popular dissident priest, the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko, in
1984.
Through repeated crises, Cardinal Glemp was an ally, though a fitful
one, of the Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, and a hostile but pragmatic
and useful intermediary for Warsaw’s Communist leader, Gen. Wojciech
Jaruzelski.
Cardinal Glemp was named primate by his countryman Pope John Paul II in
1981, becoming the representative of 34 million Catholics, about 95
percent of the population. (He became a cardinal in 1983.) But he
disappointed Poles who wanted a national savior to fight Communism with
the dynamism of his predecessor, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski.
Unlike Cardinal Wyszynski, a thundering autocrat, Cardinal Glemp was a
quiet, unprepossessing man with a homespun modesty strangely becoming in
the ornate splendor of great cathedrals and his palatial Warsaw
residence. He listened to subordinates, strived for consensus and
sometimes appeared indecisive.
Though criticized by priests and laity who supported the outlawed
Solidarity, Cardinal Glemp insisted that his mission was the
preservation of the church, not the overthrow of Communist rule. He
opposed violence and general strikes, urged restraint by the government,
and conferred with both sides to ease tensions as Soviet communism and
the walls dividing Eastern and Western Europe crumbled.
In 1988, when labor unrest shook Poland, Cardinal Glemp named Tadeusz
Mazowiecki, his close associate and a Solidarity adviser, to mediate the
peace and pave the way for talks on political reforms and national
elections. In 1989, the cardinal was a voice in Mr. Mazowiecki’s
selection as Poland’s first non-Communist prime minister since the
1940s.
He burnished his standing by accompanying John Paul during his
pilgrimages to Poland. After the democratic transition, he backed Mr.
Walesa’s successful presidential campaign in 1990, but his support was
less helpful in 1995, when Mr. Walesa lost to a former Communist,
Aleksander Kwasniewski, whom the cardinal called a “neopagan.”
Despite an increasingly secularized population, Cardinal Glemp advanced
his agenda. Compulsory religious education resumed in public schools, a
law requiring the news media to conform to “Christian values” was
adopted, and abortions were sharply restricted. His appeals to abolish a
constitutional separation of church and state went unheeded, but he
gave his blessing to Poland’s market economy.
Cardinal Glemp was repeatedly accused of anti-Semitism, notably for his
1989 remarks resisting an agreement to move a Carmelite convent from
Auschwitz, where about a million Jews were killed by the Nazis. After
Jews complained, the Vatican
agreed in 1987 to put the convent in a nearby interfaith center. But as
a deadline passed and Jews staged protests, the cardinal went on the
offensive, saying:
“Do you, esteemed Jews, not see that your pronouncements against the
nuns offend the feelings of all Poles, and our sovereignty, which has
been achieved with such difficulty? Your power lies in the mass media
that are easily at your disposal in many countries. Let them not serve
to spread anti-Polish feeling.” He added, “Dear Jews, do not talk with
us from the position of a people raised above all others, and do not
dictate conditions that are impossible to fulfill.”
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Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
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