Nazwisko bpa Farona znana jest wielu duchownym i świeckim pamiętającym okres międzywojenny zwłaszcza w tych miejscowościach, w których istniały i działały parafie polskokatolickie. Jego osobie i działalności, jak dotąd, nie poświęcono jednak żadnego odrębnego opracowania. Przez prezentację poglądów społeczno-patriotycznych i religijno-kościelnych tej niewątpliwie ciekawej i w pewnym senesie tragicznej postaci chcę choć w części tę lukę wypełnić. Opierał się będę na pracach, które bp Faron opublikował oraz na artykułach, listach pasterskich i odezwach, jakie zamieszczał na łamach "Polski Odrodzonej" oficjalnego organu prasowego Kościoła Polskokatolickiego w okresie międzywojennym.
The adoption of the programme principles and organizational forms of the Polish National Catholic Church occurred in an unusually favourable social, economic and political situation. The relations between the State and the Roman Catholic Church during the acute economic crisis of the 1930s led to anticlericalism. The peasant and worker population, socially deprived, poorly informed and religiously disoriented, sought ways to improve their social status. They hoped to achieve this by weakening the position of those who owned great estates and whose living standards contrasted sharply with their own. „Sore points” arose in many locations, in the form of reorganization of existing Roman Catholic parishes as posts of the National Church; the latter opposed the ideology and especially the organization of the Roman Catholic Church. The occurrence of many bitter conflicts, the impulse of self-defence and even attacks against the leaders of „Hodurism” are easy to understand in the context of the lively activities of Polish National Catholic priests which undermined the influence of the Roman Catholic clergy. The task of Roman Catholic priests was facilitated by the concordate, which provided for the secular arm’s assistance to the Roman Catholic Church in case of need and under specific circumstances. Because of the disintegrating centrifugal forces and of the practical consequences of the lack of legal recognition, the development of the Polish National Catholic Church and establishment of parishes as its basic and autonomous administrative units was accompanied by an almost simultaneous process of decline.
The same reasons originated the "national" social-patriotic ideology and brought about the establishment of the Polish-Catholic Church in the United States, and, finally, these same reasons implanted it in Poland. Then the propagation of that ideology decided for the acceptance and development of the Polish-National Church. In the States it was patriotism that played the main role, while in Poland social questions were emphasized, without highlighting dogmatic differences between the Roman-Catholic Church and the Polish-Catholic Church. Some main aspects of the social-patriotic ideology on the part of the Polish-Catholic Church boil down to: fighting against the dependence of Polish Catholicism on the Vatican, criticizing the social attitude of the Roman-Catholic clergy, bearing grudges end laying charges against the state administration, pointing at the "alliance of the throne and the altar" as a reactive power, guilty of all evil. Spreading such slogans and words in the "national" ideology aroused suspicion as to some links between the Polish Catholic clergy and parties which favoured socialism and communism. This kind of charge of colaboration emerged from the struggle for the same or similar goals- Radical political parties wanted to overthrow the government and gain power, while the Polish-Catholic Church wanted to replace or at least lessen the influence of the Roman-Catholic Church, and thus be provided for. That is why both the government opposition and the "national" clergymen based their propaganda on the assumption which were most topical and popular in the interwar period, and hence almost identical.
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