The Polish Church And The Vatican

Author : Jonathan Huener
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253054036

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The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation by Jonathan Huener Pdf

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, it aimed to destroy Polish national consciousness. As a symbol of Polish national identity and the religious faith of approximately two-thirds of Poland's population, the Roman Catholic Church was an obvious target of the Nazi regime's policies of ethnic, racial, and cultural Germanization. Jonathan Huener reveals in The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation that the persecution of the church was most severe in the Reichsgau Wartheland, a region of Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. Here Catholics witnessed the execution of priests, the incarceration of hundreds of clergymen and nuns in prisons and concentration camps, the closure of churches, the destruction and confiscation of church property, and countless restrictions on public expression of the Catholic faith. Huener also illustrates how some among the Nazi elite viewed this area as a testing ground for anti-church policies to be launched in the Reich after the successful completion of the war. Based on largely untapped sources from state and church archives, punctuated by vivid archival photographs, and marked by nuance and balance, The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation exposes both the brutalities and the limitations of Nazi church policy. The first English-language investigation of German policy toward the Catholic Church in occupied Poland, this compelling story also offers insight into the varied ways in which Catholics—from Pope Pius XII, to members of the Polish episcopate, to the Polish laity at the parish level—responded to the Nazi regime's repressive measures.

Author : Jonathan Luxmoore,Jolanta Babiuch
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0225668831

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The Vatican and the Red Flag by Jonathan Luxmoore,Jolanta Babiuch Pdf

This work tells the story of the Catholic Church's confrontation with communism, from the French Revolution onwards, but with particular emphasis on the post-War period. It sets out new evidence of how successive Popes unwittingly helped communism expand. Interwoven with this narrative is the life-story of Karol Woytyla, who as Pope John Paul II is the first Eastern European Pope to sit on the throne of Peter.

Author : Ronald Modras
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135286170

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The Catholic Church and Antisemitism by Ronald Modras Pdf

Interwar Poland was home to more Jews than any other country in Europe. Its commonplace but simplistic identification with antisemitism was due largely to nationalist efforts to boycott Jewish business. That they failed was not for want of support by the Catholic clergy, for whom the ''Jewish question'' was more than economic. The myth of a Masonic-Jewish alliance to subvert Christian culture first flourished in France but held considerable sway over Catholics in 1930s Poland as elsewhere. This book examines how, following Vatican policy, Polish church leaders resisted separation of church and state in the name of Catholic culture. In that struggle, every assimilated Jew served as both a symbol and a potential agent of security. Antisemitism is no longer regarded as a legitimate political stance. But in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East, the issues of religious culture, national identity, and minorities are with us still. This study of interwar Poland will shed light on dilemmas that still effect us today.

Author : Adam Piekarski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Church and state
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082101630

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The Church in Poland by Adam Piekarski Pdf

Author : Józef Gula
Publisher : School of Slavonic and East European Studie Ege London
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034250335

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The Roman Catholic Church in the History of the Polish Exiled Community in Great Britain by Józef Gula Pdf

Author : Larry Wolff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032112222

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The Vatican and Poland in the Age of the Partitions by Larry Wolff Pdf

Author : Jerzy Kloczowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521364299

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A History of Polish Christianity by Jerzy Kloczowski Pdf

This is a single-volume history of Christianity in Poland, a subject at the core of religious history and European secular history alike. The book covers the development of Polish Christianity from the tenth century to the year 2000, placing it in the broader context of East-Central European political, social, religious and cultural history. Jewish-Christian relations, and the problematic religious history of the Jews in the region, play an important part in the story, and there are pervasive references to countries historically linked to Poland, such as Lithuania, Belarus and the Ukraine. Jerzy Kloczowski shows how the history of Poland, and Polish Christianity, are embedded in the complex systems of relations with other countries and religious denominations. A History of Polish Christianity should be read by anyone interested in the confrontation between Christianity and the totalitarian systems of the twentieth century, and in the interplay between Eastern and Western Christianity.

Author : Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137402813

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The Catholic Church in Polish History by Sabrina P. Ramet Pdf

The book chronicles the evolution of the church's political power throughout Poland's unique history. Beginning in the tenth century, the study first details how Catholicism overcame early challenges in Poland, from converting the early polytheists to pushing back the Protestant Reformation half a millennium later. It continues into the dawn of the modern age—including the division of Poland between Prussia, Russia, and Austria between 1772 and 1795, the interwar years, the National Socialist occupation of World War Two, and the communist and post-war communist eras—during which The Church only half-correctly presented itself as a steadfast protector of Poles, with clergy members who either stood up to foreign authorities or collaborated with those same Nazi and Communist leaders. This study ends with a consideration of how the Church has taken advantage of the fall of communism to push its own social agenda, at times against the wishes of most Poles.

Author : Jonathan Huener
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253054067

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The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation by Jonathan Huener Pdf

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, it aimed to destroy Polish national consciousness. As a symbol of Polish national identity and the religious faith of approximately two-thirds of Poland's population, the Roman Catholic Church was an obvious target of the Nazi regime's policies of ethnic, racial, and cultural Germanization. Jonathan Huener reveals in The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation that the persecution of the church was most severe in the Reichsgau Wartheland, a region of Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. Here Catholics witnessed the execution of priests, the incarceration of hundreds of clergymen and nuns in prisons and concentration camps, the closure of churches, the destruction and confiscation of church property, and countless restrictions on public expression of the Catholic faith. Huener also illustrates how some among the Nazi elite viewed this area as a testing ground for anti-church policies to be launched in the Reich after the successful completion of the war. Based on largely untapped sources from state and church archives, punctuated by vivid archival photographs, and marked by nuance and balance, The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation exposes both the brutalities and the limitations of Nazi church policy. The first English-language investigation of German policy toward the Catholic Church in occupied Poland, this compelling story also offers insight into the varied ways in which Catholics—from Pope Pius XII, to members of the Polish episcopate, to the Polish laity at the parish level—responded to the Nazi regime's repressive measures.

Author : Neal Pease
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821443620

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Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter by Neal Pease Pdf

When an independent Poland reappeared on the map of Europe after World War I, it was widely regarded as the most Catholic country on the continent, as “Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter.” All the same, the relations of the Second Polish Republic with the Church—both its representatives inside the country and the Holy See itself—proved far more difficult than expected. Based on original research in the libraries and depositories of four countries, including recently opened collections in the Vatican Secret Archives, Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914–1939 presents the first scholarly history of the close but complex political relationship of Poland with the Catholic Church during the interwar period. Neal Pease addresses, for example, the centrality of Poland in the Vatican’s plans to convert the Soviet Union to Catholicism and the curious reluctance of each successive Polish government to play the role assigned to it. He also reveals the complicated story of the relations of Polish Catholicism with Jews, Freemasons, and other minorities within the country and what the response of Pope Pius XII to the Nazi German invasion of Poland in 1939 can tell us about his controversial policies during World War II. Both authoritative and lively, Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter shows that the tensions generated by the interplay of church and state in Polish public life exerted great influence not only on the history of Poland but also on the wider Catholic world in the era between the wars.

Author : Piotr H. Kosicki
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813229126

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Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain by Piotr H. Kosicki Pdf

The goal of this volume is to begin writing Central and Eastern Europe back into the story of the Second Vatican Council, its origins, and its consequences. This volume assembles - for the first time in any language - a broad overview of the place of four different Communist-run countries - Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia - in the story of the Council. Framing these is an account of how the Cold War impacted the Council and its reception. The book engages with both English-language scholarship and the national historiographies of the countries that it examines, offering a global lens on the present state of research (covering all relevant languages) and seeking to propel that research forward. All of the chapters draw on both non-English secondary literature and original primary sources - some published, some archival.

Author : Polish National Catholic Church of America. General Synod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015056462909

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The Polish National Catholic Church by Polish National Catholic Church of America. General Synod Pdf

-- Thomas E. Bird, Polish Review

Author : Paul Christopher Manuel,Lawrence C. Reardon,Clyde Wilcox
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1589017242

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The Catholic Church and the Nation-State by Paul Christopher Manuel,Lawrence C. Reardon,Clyde Wilcox Pdf

Presenting case studies from sixteen countries on five continents, The Catholic Church and the Nation-State paints a rich portrait of a complex and paradoxical institution whose political role has varied historically and geographically. In this integrated and synthetic collection of essays, outstanding scholars from the United States and abroad examine religious, diplomatic, and political actions—both admirable and regrettable—that shape our world. Kenneth R. Himes sets the context of the book by brilliantly describing the political influence of the church in the post-Vatican II era. There are many recent instances, the contributors assert, where the Church has acted as both a moral authority and a self-interested institution: in the United States it maintained unpopular moral positions on issues such as contraception and sexuality, yet at the same time it sought to cover up its own abuses; it was complicit in genocide in Rwanda but played an important role in ending the horrific civil war in Angola; and it has alternately embraced and suppressed nationalism by acting as the voice of resistance against communism in Poland, whereas in Chile it once supported opposition to Pinochet but now aligns with rightist parties. With an in-depth exploration of the five primary challenges facing the Church—theology and politics, secularization, the transition from serving as a nationalist voice of opposition, questions of justice, and accommodation to sometimes hostile civil authorities—this book will be of interest to scholars and students in religion and politics as well as Catholic Church clergy and laity. By demonstrating how national churches vary considerably in the emphasis of their teachings and in the scope and nature of their political involvement, the analyses presented in this volume engender a deeper understanding of the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the world.

Author : Ronald C. Monticone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081879178

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The Catholic Church in Communist Poland, 1945-1985 by Ronald C. Monticone Pdf

A systematic analysis of Church and State relations in communist Poland.

Author : Richard Frucht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 951 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576078013

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Eastern Europe [3 volumes] by Richard Frucht Pdf

A contemporary analysis of the people, cultures, and society within the regions that make up Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe: An Introduction to the People, Lands, and Culture sheds light on modern-day life in the 16 nations comprising Eastern Europe. Going beyond the history and politics already well documented in other works, this unique three-volume series explores the social and cultural aspects of a region often ignored in books and curricula on Western civilization. The volumes are organized by geographic proximity and commonality in historical development, allowing the countries to be both studied individually and juxtaposed against others in the region. The first volume covers the northern tier of states, the second looks at lands that were once part of the Hapsburg empire, and the third examines the Balkan states. Each chapter profiles a single country—its geography, history, political development, economy, and culture—and gives readers a glimpse of the challenges that lie ahead. Vignettes on various topics of interest illuminate the unique character of each country.