Postawy adaptacyjne duchowieństwa wobec władzy w okresie PRL

• Authors: Wrona Janusz

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Adaptive attitudes of the clergy towards the authorities in the Polish People’s Republic

Abstracts

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After World War II, the authorities intensively monitored the attitudes of the priests. It was an element of the wide-ranging policy of weakening the position of the Church and disintegration of the clergy. In their reports, the apparatus of the Polish United Workers’ Party and the workers of the Ministry of Public Security of Poland and the Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs placed the attitude of the priests into three groups: “reactionists”, “positive” and “undecided”. In the 1960s the third group was also called “moderate.” The biggest group of adaptive attitudes towards the existing system of the power consisted of priests classified by the authorities as “positive” and so-called “undecided” or “passive” priests. They tried to adapt to the tough conditions and to find their place in the existing reality to survive. They wanted to live peacefully. Many priests, due to their age, had no power to face the increasing confrontation with the authorities. Their attitude meant accepting the existing social and political order and limiting their activity only to the priestly activity. One also needs to take into consideration the various activities that were undertaken by the institutional Church and the priests who tried to make their activities more effective and adjust them to the evolving social and political conditions of the Polish People’s Republic. Co-operation of few of the priests with the Security Service is considered a specific and extreme form of the adaptive attitude.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
• Journal: Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Politologica
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 46-55

Contributors

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Wrona Janusz

• Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej

References

• Archiwum Państwowe w Lublinie Archiwum IPN w Lublinie Archiwum Archidiecezjalne Lubelskie
• Archiwum Państwowe w Lublinie
• Archiwum IPN w Lublinie
• Archiwum Archidiecezjalne Lubelskie

Notes

Janusz Wrona dr hab. profesor Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, pracownik Zakładu Historii Społecznej IH UMCS. Realizowana przez niego problematyka koncentruje się na analizie powstawania i funkcjonowania w Polsce powojennego systemu politycznego i społecznego. Jej efektem są dwie monografie i liczne artykuły naukowe. W ostatnim okresie prowadzi badania poświęcone relacjom państwo-kościół-społeczeństwo w województwie lubelskim, w okresie PRL.