The subject of the article is the attempt to analyze the situation of the Ukrainians in Poland as a community, which fights for survival and defends itself against cultural and national absorption. An example of this is the editorial output of Ukrainian social activist from Przemyśl Włodzimierz Pilipowicz. It expresses the trend to maintain the Ukrainian cultural heritage in Poland.
The aim of this article is to make a thorough study of the idea of the union of the Catholic and the Orthodox Churches at the beginning of the 1590s in the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania. As early as in 1590 it took the form of many secret internal meetings and consultations. Their subject was a more or less specified idea of the union between the two Churches. We have analysed two fundamental documents: unification declaration of the Orthodox episcopate formulated on the 24th June 1590 and the answer to it in the form of the official document issued twice by king Sigismund III Chancellery – on the 18th March 1592 and 18th May 1592. They were concentrated mainly on differently comprehended ideas of the union with Rome. That was the idea of the universal union which would not mean the break of the Orthodox with the Patriarch of Constantinople.
The article analyses the impact of the Catholic Church on the process of Polish-Ukrainian dialogue and reconciliation. It highlights the concept of Christian universalism referring to the elements that connect both nations and implying attitudes aimed at reaching understanding between Poles and Ukrainians. The author focuses also on finding and reconstructing the sources of religious activities that initiate dialogue and the process of reconciliation between Polish and Ukrainian party. The importance and universal role of religious traditions in the transformation of Polish-Ukrainian relations is strongly emphasised.
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W artykule dokonano analizy wpływu Kościoła katolickiego na proces dialogu i pojednania polsko-ukraińskiego. Wskazano na kwestię chrześcijańskiego uniwersalizmu odwołującego się do elementów łączących oba narody oraz implikującego postawy zmierzające do porozumienia Polaków i Ukraińców. Skoncentrowano się także na poszukiwaniu i rekonstrukcji źródeł działań o charakterze religijnym, inicjujących dialog i proces przebaczenia między stroną polską i ukraińską. Podkreślono znaczenie i uniwersalną rolę tradycji religijnych w przemianach stosunków polsko-ukraińskich.
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