| 21. | Cardinal Jozef Glemp and other Polish church leaders have criticized the smaller crosses near the papal cross as provocations by irresponsible people.
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| 22. | Church leaders softened in late August, calling for the smaller crosses to be removed but saying the papal cross must remain.
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| 23. | Last month Poland's Senate voted to allow the papal cross to remain near Auschwitz, but to remove the others.
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| 24. | Switon last year moved into a tent near the large papal cross and urged conservative Catholics to plant crosses on the site.
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| 25. | But Navarro-Valls also said the " great majority " of Poles favor retaining the papal cross near Auschwitz.
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| 26. | Created by Paschal Clarke . Various physical crosses have been called " papal crosses " because of their association with a pope.
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| 27. | They also want the papal cross removed, but some Jewish figures say a smaller monument that includes a cross would be acceptable.
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| 28. | An example is the "'Papal Cross "', a large white mass at the cross during that visit.
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| 29. | Mrs . Helen Zaunbrecher was decorated by Pope John Paul II in 1982 with the Papal Cross of Honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.
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| 30. | Switon rallied people to erect the 300 smaller crosses next to the papal cross and had been living on a tent at the site.
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