<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Mourners Seek Solace in Public Gatherings]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37492-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37492-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 9 Apr 2005 7:59:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Lauren Walter hadn't had much sleep when her alarm clock blared at 2:58 a.m. yesterday. The groggy 18-year-old slept for 10 more minutes before she slipped on soft pink sweat pants, grabbed a can of Mountain Dew for a jolt of energy and headed out the door.]]></description><author> Maria Glod and Maureen Fan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Tears, Gratitude, Faithful Bid Goodbye]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38443-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38443-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 9 Apr 2005 7:59:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Some 20 miles from Vatican, a group of Polish pilgrims came to say their last goodbye to Pope John Paul II, watching the late pontiff's funeral on a giant television screen.]]></description><author> Craig Whitlock</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush: Funeral a 'Reaffirmation']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36405-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36405-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 9 Apr 2005 7:59:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President says pope's emotional funeral strengthened his belief in Christianity, in a living God and in how religious faith is a lifelong journey, not a respite.]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fatigued and Frustrated, Faithful Find Some Relief]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35840-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35840-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 9 Apr 2005 7:59:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NETTUNO, Italy, April 7  --  The revolt erupted about 8 a.m., shortly after the Polish pilgrims arrived in this town 35 miles outside Rome and stepped off the buses to inspect the three-star hotel they had been promised with hot showers and warm beds, the first since they had departed Krakow for the Vatican two days earlier.]]></description><author> Craig Whitlock</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ailing Pope Wrestled With the Weight of Office]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33583-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33583-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 9 Apr 2005 7:59:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[John Paul II appeared to have contemplated stepping down in 2000 for health reasons, according to his will, which the Vatican released during final preparations for Friday's funeral.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Arduous Journey]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32491-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32491-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 9 Apr 2005 7:59:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Polish group joins waves of pilgrims to honor the life of Pope John Paul II, their national hero and holy father to millions of Polish Catholics.]]></description><author> Craig Whitlock</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Path Too Steep for Polish Pilgrims]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28314-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid 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successor.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams  and Alan Cooperman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Poles, Church Is Wojtyla's Legacy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23777-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23777-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 9 Apr 2005 7:59:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NOWA HUTA, Poland<br>Of all the memorials and monuments to Pope John Paul II's life and career in Poland, perhaps none is more politically symbolic than a discolored concrete building in the middle of what was designed to be a socialist worker's paradise.]]></description><author> Craig Whitlock</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Paul II Dies at 84]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21229-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid 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statesman who helped bring down Eastern European communism, and a defender of the faith who insisted that the church confront the sins of its past to prepare it for the third millennium.]]></description><author> J.Y. Smith</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[United Stops Chivas]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21545-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21545-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 9 Apr 2005 7:59:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Joshua Gros and Christian Gomez score as D.C. United opens defense of their title Saturday with a 2-0 victory over expansion Chivas USA.]]></description><author> Steven Goff</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Inspiration for a Workers' Revolution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22109-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22109-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 9 Apr 2005 7:59:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Within hours of taking over the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk in August 1980, an action that opened the way for the collapse of communism, Polish workers decorated the gate with a large photograph of Pope John Paul II. The portrait was both symbol and talisman  --  a rejection of the godless ideology of Marxism and protection from the fury of the communist regime.]]></description><author> Michael Dobbs</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poland Says Goodbye to Its National Hero]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21746-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21746-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 9 Apr 2005 7:59:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Millions of Poles wept, prayed and gathered in chapels and town squares to remember the life of the priest from Krakow who overcame Nazi invasion and Communist rule to lead a resurgence of the Roman Catholic church.]]></description><author> Craig Whitlock</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Shadow of Death, No Fear]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20422-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20422-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 9 Apr 2005 7:59:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "Do not be afraid."<br>Outside, the sky is overcast and gray, giving way to darkness and the falling rain and a sense of the inevitable.]]></description><author> Neely Tucker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Vigil Of Hope For Beloved Compatriot]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19630-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19630-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 9 Apr 2005 7:59:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of people in the Polish town of Wadowice prayed and stood a hopeful vigil Friday at the 500-year-old church where Karol Wojtyla was baptized, remembering their personal encounters with perhaps the most famous Pole in history.]]></description><author> Craig Whitlock</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Delivers a Silent Easter Blessing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4355-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4355-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 9 Apr 2005 7:59:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ROME, March 27  --  The hand of an unseen assistant moved a microphone out of the shadows of the papal palace and into place at an open window. Sitting in front of it, Pope John Paul II tried to broadcast an Easter Sunday blessing to the tens of thousands of pilgrims, worshipers and tourists in St. Peter's Square below. But all he could manage were rasps and grimaces. His hand traced a cross in the air, and tears flowed from the eyes of many in the hushed crowd.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-Euro Europe]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47373-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47373-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 9 Apr 2005 7:59:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There's a smart way for U.S. travelers to Europe to cope with the pinch on the pocketbook caused by the euro: Don't use it.]]></description><author> Gary Lee</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Leaves Hospital as Faithful Cheer]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31017-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31017-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 9 Apr 2005 7:59:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ROME, March 13  --  To cries of "Long live the pope!" John Paul II left the hospital and returned to the Vatican on Sunday, 2 1/2 weeks after undergoing throat surgery to ease his breathing.]]></description><author> Alan Cooperman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dress for an Anniversary]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15620-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15620-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_world/europe/centraleurope/poland/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 9 Apr 2005 7:59:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Regarding the brouhaha over Vice President Cheney's attire at Auschwitz-Birkenau [letters, Feb. 7], if the vice president thought a personalized parka and ski cap were suitable for such a solemn occasion, why wasn't he similarly dressed at the inauguration? It was cold then too, but he managed to spend several hours dressed in a dignified fashion. In Poland he reinforced the stereotype of Americans as thoughtless boors. This historic 60th anniversary deserved better from the U.S. representative.]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>
