priMAte WySZyńSKi tOWArDS pOLiSH

• Authors: Dominik Zamiatała
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Primate S. Wyszyński was interested in each symptom of social and religious life of the society in the Western Lands. Thanks to his frequent visitations he knew Church, social and national reality in this area very well. He also noticed an important role of the Church in its mission to unite these lands with “homeland”. Primate was not doubtful that these lands fairly belonged to Poland. The assignment of these lands to Poland was perceived by him as not only the recognition of historical rights, but also as “Divine restitution”, as an expression of justice for Poland being harmed by the German occupier, and not a political game. In his speeches and sermons, he reassured and encouraged its inhabitants. He called them to last here, on these old Piast lands, and believe in „historical moment of the nation on these lands” and to love this land. Primate noticed the effects of confusing policy of the communists towards Silesian people in Opole region. He saw that the encounter of indigenous people with Poland by communism must have been disastrous for Poland, which identified everything, which was Polish, with communism.

Keywords

EN

Western Lands; Primate S. Wyszyński; Church; German revisionism; communist authorities

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Studia Theologica Varsaviensia
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 201-213

Dates

published

2019-11-01

Contributors

author

Dominik Zamiatała

References

• Wyszyński S., The collected works, vol. I, 1949-1953, Warszawa 1991
• Wyszyński S., The collected works, vol. II, 1953-1956, Warszawa 1995.
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• Wyszyński S., The collected works, vol. XVI, January-April 1966, Częstochowa 2016.
• Wyszyński S., Pro memoria, vol. 1. 1948-1952, ed. P. Skibiński, Warszawa 2017.
• Wyszyński S., Pro memoria, vol. 2, 1953, ed. E. Czaczkowska, Warszawa 2017.

Identifiers

DOI

10.21697/stv.61.2.12