[Salvation]

**Those priests at the Polish mission cannot function unless given faculties by the local bishop.**

True with any order. Not just Jesuits.

In this archdiocese we have land owned and operated by the Benedictine's WITH the approval of the archbishop.

[Maeve]

American Catholics often fall into the trap of thinking that the way things work in the US or Canada is how they work for the Church in other countries. It is not always so cut and dried abroad particularly where the Church has ancient roots in the midst of hostile powers etc. Unique historical circumstances do contribute to conditions that are inconceivable in America.

The underground Catholic Church in the former Czechoslovakia parallel to the visible Catholic Church in that former nation gave some indication of the unusual situations the Church finds herself in. After the Velvet Revolution, it took a while for the Vatican to figure out it needed to erect the Greek Catholic Church in the Czech Republic to accomodate the underground married priests who were the bravest men and Catholic heroes. The Vatican officials at first treated them like unwanted vermin, but that is not new for God's saints in the making.