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The author makes a reflection on the text of the apostolic exhortation of John Paul II Ecclesia in Europa. It includes a description of the contemporary cultural condition of Europe and of the current challenges as Islam and secularism. The third and most important challenge is the religious condition of those baptized persons who formally belong to the Church, but in practice they live as if there would be no God. The text emphasizes in particular the problem of limiting the perspective of life and reflection to the horizontal dimension, the temptation to extinguish hope, and the need for the Church to give in her activities priority to evangelization against any other secondary purpose.
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Autor podejmuje refleksję nad tekstem adhortacji apostolskiej Jana Pawła II Ecclesia in Europa. Obejmuje ona opis współczesnej kondycji kulturowej Europy oraz aktualnych wyzwań w postaci islamu i sekularyzmu. Trzecim i bodaj najważniejszym wyzwaniem jest kondycja religijna osób ochrzczonych, które formalnie należą do Kościoła, ale w praktyce żyją tak, jakby Boga nie było. W tekście szczególnie wyakcentowany jest problem ograniczenia perspektywy życiowej i refleksji do wymiaru horyzontalnego, pokusa gaszenia nadziei oraz konieczność przyznania w działaniach Kościoła pierwszeństwa ewangelizacji przed jakimikolwiek innymi, drugorzędnymi celami.
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In the article the author presents the analysis of cultural processes that have a negative impact on the Catholic Church and Christianity, threatening the very essence of the mission of the Church, as well as leading to dechristianisation of societies. The disquisition presented in the article starts from the problem of political involvement of priests. The author presents the argumentation taken from the teachings of the Catholic Church, showing why priests should keep a distance from politics, as well as exceptions to this rule. Analysing further the Church's coming too close to politics, the article focuses on the phenomenon of reducing the idea of salvation and mission of the Church to the dimension of worldliness as a process that may lead to the loss of the essence by Christianity. Another threat of this type presented in the article is popularisation in the Church and in theology of the notions, that have been created in order to supersede from science the terms with Christian provenance. This leads to the adoption of atheistic para-digm in theology. This phenomenon is accompanied by other dangerous tendency, namely the secularisation of Christians, who think, make decisions and live as though Christ did not exist.
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