Alcoholism leads to the bio-psycho-social and spiritual consequences. Alcoholism in women is considerably extended theme, therefore, in our contribution to its activities and at the same time resistance patology and at the same time we also recommend possible alternatives to combat this disease, how to triumph over addiction. Alcohol addiction is a negative social phenomenon, which causes damage to companies and individuals, is the cause of problems in marriage and threatening the healthy development of children and youth. Recovering alcoholic-woman a child psychologically unsuitable, unwanted social model provides the role of women, mothers and wives. In another work of the author, we have confirmed that alcohol may be the cause as well as the consequences of alcoholism. We also found a positive change in the personality of the abstinent survey alkoholic woman and their spiritual emotion, resocializáciou and faith in God have managed to succeed over their alcoholism. We want to point out the importance of the spiritual component, which has been acquired and developed over the years, often until after the entry into force of the negative experiences of women dependent on alcohol.
„Przyjaciel Trzeźwości” (1907-1914; 1927-1939) to jedno z popularniejszych polskojęzycznych czasopism abstynenckich. Celem tych pism było ukazywanie szkodliwego wpływu alkoholu, tytoniu, hazardu, pokarmów mięsnych oraz rozpusty, a po pierwszej wojnie światowej również narkotyków, na zdrowie jednostki i społeczeństwa. Na łamach omawianego periodyku odnoszono się do różnych abstynenckich kwestii. Redaktorzy i współpracownicy informowali czytelników o rozwijającym się ruchu antyalkoholowym w Polsce i za granicą, abstynenckim prawodawstwie czy leczeniu nałogu pijaństwa. Prezentowali też abstynencką literaturę naukową i fachową, a zwłaszcza beletrystykę. W „Przyjacielu Trzeźwości” możemy znaleźć ponadto interesujące informacje na temat osób, bez których polski czy światowy ruch antyalkoholowy nie mógłby się rozwijać. I właśnie te zagadnienia stanowią główny cel rozważań. Z uwagi na fakt, że „Przyjaciel Trzeźwości” ukazywał się również w czasach zaborów, ale ten okres w dziejach pisma został już dogłębnie opracowany, autorka ograniczyła się do zaprezentowania interesujących ją kwestii po wznowieniu w 1927 r. zawieszonego z powodu wybuchu pierwszej wojny światowej tytułu.
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“Przyjaciel Trzeźwości” [“The Friend of Sobriety”] (1907-1914; 1927-1939) is one of the most popular Polish abstinence magazines. The purpose of these writings was to show the harmful effects of alcohol, tobacco, gambling, meat foods and debauchery, and after the First World War also drugs, on the health of the individual and society. In the columns of the journal, various abstinence issues were considered. The editors and collaborators informed readers about the developing abstinence movement in Poland and abroad, abstinence legislation and the treatment of the various addictions. They also presented scientific and professional abstinence literature, and especially fiction. In “The Friend of Sobriety” we can also find interesting information about the people without whom the Polish and the global abstinence movement, especially the anti-alcohol movement, could not have developed. These issues are the main focus of the article. “The Friend of Sobriety” also appeared during the partitions, but since this period in the history of the magazine has already been thoroughly discussed, the author limits herself to presenting the issues of interest to her after publication of the journal was resumed in 1927 after suspension due to the outbreak of the First World War.
One of the aims of the Association of Teetotal Priests was to combat alcoholism by publishing relevant literature addressed to a wide audience. The first publications released by the Association appeared in 1903. The Association of Teetotal Priests published six books (brochures and books of small size) to the outbreak of the First World War. Moreover, there were dozens types of ephemeral prints, among which worth mentioning are: carol and communion pictures, postcards, appeals, pictorial and statistical charts, graphs and inserts for prayer books. Another thing worth noting is the fact that the Association of Teetotal Priests in the Archdiocese of Gniezno and Poznań also published periodicals. A number of priests from the Association were engaged in scientific, journalistic and editorial activity. Among them special mention should be drawn to: Rev. Kazimierz Niesiołowski, Rev. Józef Janiszewski, Rev. Henryk Antoni Szuman, Rev. Maksymilian Mrugas and Rev. Onufry Śpikowski. The publications of the Association were distributed mainly by the abstinence secretariats (depots) located in Poznań and Lviv. It is noteworthy that those members of the Association who paid regular fees received all publications free of charge.
Among the 25th Polish-language abstinence magazines published in the second half of the XIXth and early XXth century, there were two published abroad. One of them is the journal “Jarskie Życie”, published in Berlin in 1912, whose creator was Augustyn Czarnowski, a well-known dentist, hygienist, homeopath and Polish socio-educational activist. The second of these periodicals “Abstynent” was initiated in Chicago, in 1911, by Fr. Władysław Kwiatkowski, philosopher, theologian, activist and pastor of the Polish community abroad, publicist and journalist. The magazine “Abstynent”, which changed the title several times, was published until 1915 and was the press body of the several abstinence organizations operating in the United States. The purpose of this article is to show their activities in the light of the characterized periodical.
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Wśród 25. polskojęzycznych czasopism abstynenckich ukazujących się w drugiej połowie XIX i początkach XX wieku znajdują się dwa wydawane za granicą. Jednym z nich jest periodyk „Jarskie Życie”, wychodzący w Berlinie w 1912 r., którego twórcą był Augustyn Czarnowski, znany stomatolog, higienista, homeopata i polonijny działacz społeczno-oświatowy. Drugie z tych pism „Abstynent” zapoczątkował w Chicago, w 1911 r., ks. Władysław Kwiatkowski, filozof, teolog, działacz i duszpasterz polonijny, publicysta oraz dziennikarz. Czasopismo „Abstynent”, które kilkakrotnie zmieniało tytuł, ukazywało się do 1915 r. i było organem prasowym kilku polonijnych organizacji abstynenckich funkcjonujących w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Celem tego artykułu jest ukazanie ich działalności w świetle charakteryzowanego periodyku.
The article deals with the teaching of the Church Fathers on the consumption of wine and the ensuing problems. From an analysis of the statements of ancient authors it follows that they were not absolute enemies of wine drinking and claimed that as God’s gift wine could give people joy and warm up the organism. It can therefore without much fear be drunk by the elderly whose desires are curbed by age and reason. The young, however, should be aware of the many dangers entailed by the abuse of alcohol. Drunkenness, according to the teaching of St. Paul, is classified as grave sin. In the opinion of the Fathers drunkards cannot control their emotions and passions and this leads them to neglect their families and draw away from God. For this reason ancient preachers address those who abuse alcohol with words of encouragement to take up struggle against the addiction and in this way take care of the salvation of their souls. In their efforts to free themselves from their addiction they should be supported by those closest to them.
On the last Sunday of July, 1984, a bishops pastoral was read out for the first time in all Polish churches: it contained an appeal to the nation to abstain from vodka and to be moderate in consumption of other alcoholic beverages throughout August, a special month in the history of Poland. The appeal has a special position in the Church's postwar activities aimed at ,,sobering the nation up". Its chief novelty is the way in which the need for such renouncement is grounded. The authors cite first and foremost the national values: ,Forty years ago, Warsaw ran with blood. It is the highest time now for (...) Poles to bring themselves to a definite act of sobriety as a tribute to those who fell in the streets of Warsaw fighting for freedom and in the name of the noblest ideals. (...) May this great nationwide abstention from vodka become the Nation's moral rising against subjugation which finds one of its most tragic expressions in drunkenness (...). May this be a rising against this aspect of incapacitation of the Polish nation". A similar appeal was also issued a year later and in 1986; in the latter case, it was for total abstinence. In 1986, a study was carried out at the Lublin Catholic University. It was to define: 1) the range of social backing for the Church appeal of August 1984; 2) the social circles in which the backing was greater vs. smaller; and 3) the state authorities attitude towards that initiative. Examined was a nationwide representative sample of 2,105 persons aged at least 18. A decided rnajority of Polish society were well-disposed towards the Church's August initiative, 80 per cent of the examined persons expressing a favourable opinion about the appeal. Every fifth respondent voiced his fullest approval. Also most of the examined persons stressed the Church's high prestige and social authority in their statements: in their opinion, these factors should contribute to a higher social approval of the appeal. Others who also backed the appeal pointed to the dangers that result from drunkenness and alcoholism. In many cases) the respondents added to their statements various relevant postulates which they believed the society and government ought to meet. ,,There was a great need for such an appeal'', said one of the respondents, ,,all Polish people should back it." Another one said, In my opinion, this (initiative) is super. The government should give all its backing to it." About 7 per cent of the respondents were ill-disposed towards the August appeal. Some of them thought it to be senseless; but others were highly aggressive towards it. ,,A clerical whim", was one of such opinions. Women were much better-disposed towards the Church's initiative than men. The Episcopate's pastoral received the warmest reception in medium-sized and big towns, and the coolest-in small towns. Those with secondary and incomplete elementary education were most favourable towards the appeal than intellectuals, and than factorymen in particular. The respondents were rather skeptical about the results of such appeals. Of the 829 persons who expressed their opinion about this problem, only 16.5 per cent believed such initiatives to be generally effective. They thought most of the nation would comply with the appeal which might thus ,,stop the extention of drunkenness’’ or ,, hold the nation on the edge of a precipice’’. Their optimistic attitudes resulted from their recent observations. A considerable group of respondents saw ,, a smaller number of drunks in the streets of Polish towns in August’’. About 15 per cent of those who expressed their opinion about this problem estimated the August appeal not to be very effective and thought only the ,,deepest believers’’ would comply with it. 16 per cent of the respondents were ambivalent, and the largest proportion, about 34 per cent of the examined persons, found the Church’s August initiative to be ineffective. Most of the latter thought this situation to result from the fact that ,, those who drink never go to church’’. As follows from the study, 10.5 per cent of adult Poles gave their active backing to the August appeal. This means that about 2.8 million of Poles abstained from alcohol in August 1986, thus expressing their solidarity with the Church appeal. Interesting are motives that actuated the decision to comply with the appeal for sobriety. Among them, the motives of a social nature prevail, with over two-thirds of the discussed group of respondents stating that they found the appeal to be just and useful and hence supported it, or that they wanted this way to contribute to the reduction of drinking and alcoholism in Poland, or believed alcohol to bring about much unhappiness and suffering. About 30 per cent of this group mentioned religious motives, including about 27 per cent who were actuated by general, and 3 per cent by personal religious reasons. Women’s response to the appeal was much more favourable than that of men: 12.7 per cent of adult Polish women complied with the appeal for sobriety, as compared with 8 per cent only of adult men. Persons aged over 60 gave the strongest backing to the appeal; also those in their forties and fifties were well-disposed to that initiative. It won but a weak support of the youth, and the least favourable were those aged 26-40. The higher educated circles were less willing to comply with the appeal than those with a lower level of education. The appeal proved most convincing for the population of medium-sized towns and communes; instead, the inhabitants of small towns and big cities were most reserved towards it. Among the professionally active, peasants and intellectuals were much better-disposed towards the bishops pastoral than entrepreneurs, workmen, and especially peasants who have extra jobs as workmen. Of those who are not employed pensioners and housewives were equally inclined to support the appeal, this tendency being weaker among students and schoolchildren. A strong correlation was found between the attitude towards the appeal and religious observance. The church-going persons were better-disposed towards the appeal than those who practice occasionally or not at all. A relation was also found between a Party or trade-union membership and the attitude towards the appeal. Members of the Polish United Workers Party were more critical towards it than persons with no party affiliation; a similar interdependence found also in the case of trade-unions membership. As shown by statistical analysis, the following traits are most strongly correlated with the attitude towards the appeal: regularity of religious practices on holidays: sex; socio-professional group ; age; type and size of locality; education; membership of the Polish United Worker’s Party and trade-unions.
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On the last Sunday of July, 1984, a bishops pastoral was read out for the first time in all Polish churches: it contained an appeal to the nation to abstain from vodka and to be moderate in consumption of other alcoholic beverages throughout August, a special month in the history of Poland. The appeal has a special position in the Church's postwar activities aimed at ,,sobering the nation up". Its chief novelty is the way in which the need for such renouncement is grounded. The authors cite first and foremost the national values: ,Forty years ago, Warsaw ran with blood. It is the highest time now for (...) Poles to bring themselves to a definite act of sobriety as a tribute to those who fell in the streets of Warsaw fighting for freedom and in the name of the noblest ideals. (...) May this great nationwide abstention from vodka become the Nation's moral rising against subjugation which finds one of its most tragic expressions in drunkenness (...). May this be a rising against this aspect of incapacitation of the Polish nation". A similar appeal was also issued a year later and in 1986; in the latter case, it was for total abstinence. In 1986, a study was carried out at the Lublin Catholic University. It was to define: 1) the range of social backing for the Church appeal of August 1984; 2) the social circles in which the backing was greater vs. smaller; and 3) the state authorities attitude towards that initiative. Examined was a nationwide representative sample of 2,105 persons aged at least 18. A decided rnajority of Polish society were well-disposed towards the Church's August initiative, 80 per cent of the examined persons expressing a favourable opinion about the appeal. Every fifth respondent voiced his fullest approval. Also most of the examined persons stressed the Church's high prestige and social authority in their statements: in their opinion, these factors should contribute to a higher social approval of the appeal. Others who also backed the appeal pointed to the dangers that result from drunkenness and alcoholism. In many cases) the respondents added to their statements various relevant postulates which they believed the society and government ought to meet. ,,There was a great need for such an appeal'', said one of the respondents, ,,all Polish people should back it." Another one said, In my opinion, this (initiative) is super. The government should give all its backing to it." About 7 per cent of the respondents were ill-disposed towards the August appeal. Some of them thought it to be senseless; but others were highly aggressive towards it. ,,A clerical whim", was one of such opinions. Women were much better-disposed towards the Church's initiative than men. The Episcopate's pastoral received the warmest reception in medium-sized and big towns, and the coolest-in small towns. Those with secondary and incomplete elementary education were most favourable towards the appeal than intellectuals, and than factorymen in particular. The respondents were rather skeptical about the results of such appeals. Of the 829 persons who expressed their opinion about this problem, only 16.5 per cent believed such initiatives to be generally effective. They thought most of the nation would comply with the appeal which might thus ,,stop the extention of drunkenness’’ or ,, hold the nation on the edge of a precipice’’. Their optimistic attitudes resulted from their recent observations. A considerable group of respondents saw ,, a smaller number of drunks in the streets of Polish towns in August’’. About 15 per cent of those who expressed their opinion about this problem estimated the August appeal not to be very effective and thought only the ,,deepest believers’’ would comply with it. 16 per cent of the respondents were ambivalent, and the largest proportion, about 34 per cent of the examined persons, found the Church’s August initiative to be ineffective. Most of the latter thought this situation to result from the fact that ,, those who drink never go to church’’. As follows from the study, 10.5 per cent of adult Poles gave their active backing to the August appeal. This means that about 2.8 million of Poles abstained from alcohol in August 1986, thus expressing their solidarity with the Church appeal. Interesting are motives that actuated the decision to comply with the appeal for sobriety. Among them, the motives of a social nature prevail, with over two-thirds of the discussed group of respondents stating that they found the appeal to be just and useful and hence supported it, or that they wanted this way to contribute to the reduction of drinking and alcoholism in Poland, or believed alcohol to bring about much unhappiness and suffering. About 30 per cent of this group mentioned religious motives, including about 27 per cent who were actuated by general, and 3 per cent by personal religious reasons. Women’s response to the appeal was much more favourable than that of men: 12.7 per cent of adult Polish women complied with the appeal for sobriety, as compared with 8 per cent only of adult men. Persons aged over 60 gave the strongest backing to the appeal; also those in their forties and fifties were well-disposed to that initiative. It won but a weak support of the youth, and the least favourable were those aged 26-40. The higher educated circles were less willing to comply with the appeal than those with a lower level of education. The appeal proved most convincing for the population of medium-sized towns and communes; instead, the inhabitants of small towns and big cities were most reserved towards it. Among the professionally active, peasants and intellectuals were much better-disposed towards the bishops pastoral than entrepreneurs, workmen, and especially peasants who have extra jobs as workmen. Of those who are not employed pensioners and housewives were equally inclined to support the appeal, this tendency being weaker among students and schoolchildren. A strong correlation was found between the attitude towards the appeal and religious observance. The church-going persons were better-disposed towards the appeal than those who practice occasionally or not at all. A relation was also found between a Party or trade-union membership and the attitude towards the appeal. Members of the Polish United Workers Party were more critical towards it than persons with no party affiliation; a similar interdependence found also in the case of trade-unions membership. As shown by statistical analysis, the following traits are most strongly correlated with the attitude towards the appeal: regularity of religious practices on holidays: sex; socio-professional group ; age; type and size of locality; education; membership of the Polish United Worker’s Party and trade-unions.
The article is dedicated to the person of prelate Antoni Henryk Szuman, which conducts the second group of Polish martyrs from Roman Catholic Diocese of Pelplin that were murded during the Second World War. The text focuses on describing the activity of this priest on the field of combating alcoholism and its consequences. Servant of God from Pelplin claimed that alcoholism was the biggest social problem in Poland during the inter-war period. The text shows great dedication of this priest to this case in all his priestly and social activates. The article highlights incredible knowledge of this person and acquaintance with this subject and following excellent competencies of Szuman.
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Artykuł poświęcony jest postaci ks. prałata Antoniego Henryka Szumana, który przewodniczy II grupie męczenników Diecezji Pelplińskiej z okresu II Wojny Światowej, w trwającym obecnie procesie beatyfikacyjnym. Cała uwaga w tekście skupiona została na opisaniu konkretnej działalności tego kapłana na polu jego walki z alkoholizmem wraz z jego następstwami. Pelpliński Sługa Boży uważał to zagadnienie za największą plagę społeczną lat międzywojennych na terenie Polski. Tekst wykazuje zaangażowanie ks. Szumana we wspomniany problem na niemal wszystkich polach jego pracy duszpasterskiej oraz szeroko pojętej działalności społecznej. Artykuł podkreśla także niesamowitą wiedzę i obycie tego kapłana – na miarę jego czasów – z opisywaną tematyką, a co za tym idzie doskonałe kompetencję ks. H. Szumana.
Celem artykułu jest zwrócenie uwagi na trzeźwość i jej znaczenie w życiu każdego człowieka. Należy bowiem zdawać sobie sprawę, że właśnie trzeźwość odgrywa w ludzkim życiu dominującą rolę – wpływa na jego rozwój, prawidłowe funkcjonowanie rodziny i społeczeństwa. Związana z cnotą umiarkowania pozwala panować nad pożądaniami i przyjemnościami, głównie zmysłowymi tak, by człowiek potrafił kierować się nie tylko sercem i wyobraźnią, ale także rozumem. To właśnie trzeźwość otwiera na miłość, wolność, dojrzałość, odpowiedzialność względem siebie i bliźniego, kierując go ku najwyższej wartości, jaką jest Bóg. Temat trzeźwości towarzyszy człowiekowi już od samego początku jego istnienia. Mówi o tym już Pismo Święte Starego i Nowego Testamentu, które przestrzega przed nadużywaniem alkoholu, pisząc o jego zgubnym działaniu zamykającym człowiekowi drogę do zbawienia będącego celem każdej osoby. Toteż o trzeźwości, oraz zgubnych skutkach związanych z jej brakiem, Kościół mówi w swoim nauczaniu od pierwszych wieków istnienia. Już wielcy Ojcowie Kościoła, tacy jak: św. Klemens Aleksandryjski, św. Hieronim, św. Augustyn wypowiadali się na ten temat, a w średniowieczu św. Tomasz z Akwinu opisał cnotę trzeźwości w swoich pismach. Kościół, kierując się troską o człowieka i realizację jego powołania, nieustannie z całą mocą i siłą wspiera działania zmierzające do życia w trzeźwości. Realizuje to zadanie między innymi poprzez nauczanie,oraz dokumenty, w których mówi na temat trzeźwości.
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The starting point for writing the article was to draw attention to sobriety and what it is for every human being. One should be aware that sobriety plays a dominant role in human life - in its development and in the proper functioning of the family and society. The virtue of moderation can prevail over the desires and pleasures, especially sensual pleasures, enabling a person to be guided not only by the heart and the imagination, but also by reason. It is sobriety that opens the way to love, freedom, maturity and responsibility for one another, directing people to the highest value, which is God. The issue of sobriety has accompanied man from the very beginning of his existence. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments warn against the abuse of alcohol, writing about its pernicious effect in closing the way of salvation, which is the goal of every human person. Therefore Holy Church mentions sobriety, and the evils associated with its absence in her teaching from the first centuries of her existence. Even the great Fathers of the Church, such as St. Clement of Alexandria, St. Jerome and St. Augustine, spoke on sobriety, and in the Middle Ages St. Thomas Aquinas described the virtues of sobriety in his writings. The Church, guided by concern for the human being and the realization of his vocation, always lends her power and whole-hearted support to campaigns that encourage people to live in sobriety. She accomplishes this task by teaching, and by the documents which discuss matters of sobriety.
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