In the context of politically inspired media attacks on John Paul II, we match the column of Jastrzębski, which was published in Polish Thought, No. 49-50 (6-13.12.2020). Today, this text only becomes news.
It is apparent that the media sound concerning the cooperation of bishops with the safety Service, the homosexuality of hierarchs and the cover-up of pedophilia is simply a prelude – the aim is to hit the Polish Pope John Paul II. That's my approval as a Pole, although the unbeliever is not.
The first thing is perfectly clear. all medium-oriented man knows the hierarchs had to talk to the safety Service. I don't see anything incorrect with that. People's Poland was our country, and its services should service us. The attitude of any bishops should be praised alternatively of ganial. Minister – Head of the Office for Confessions Kazimierz Kąkol He recalled: “Chyliński (the boy of Bierut, the ambassador to Germany) wrote that German retaliators together with German bishops had planned Bishop Gulbinovich to mount a service for the alleged exiles from our Western lands, connected with the reunion of the country. That is, in a scandalous organization beating in Polish state's right, due to the fact that they undermine our rights to the Earth Recovered. Dąbrowski finished reading and asking if he could usage the phone, due to the fact that he must immediately scope Gulbinovich. Of course he can. It's ringing. You must not go to Germany... And then speaking to me, you see, Minister, we can jump in each other's eyes, but in matters of importance for Poland we can communicate (...)". For me, it's more than obvious.
The second and 3rd issues are besides clear. “Whatever you have done to 1 of these small ones, you have done to me” (Mt 25.40). There are no excuses. No talking about attacking the church. There's no making legends about conspiracy against priests. erstwhile anyone in a sutan or a habit moves his finger to harm a child, he should be punished like any another man. Though possibly you should be more harsh, for we require more of them. But only where the evidence is. due to the fact that most of these accusations present are based on talk, gossip, and gross lies. The goal is to detest everything, to show that we lived and lived in a swamp. Prove that John Paul II was the head of what criminal structure and here cannot be consent.
John Paul II is and should stay for us Poles 1 of the most outstanding figures of our history. Not only should Catholics and believers be a reason for pride, a symbol of our capabilities, an component of our collective identity. He defended the civilization of life and in matters for the most crucial ethics he did not succumb to the temptations of “modernity”. He was the 1 who realized that softening standards was weakening. In matters of defence of life, model of family, function of female and man, abortion, euthanasia, sex life, he did not go to any extremist concessions despite powerful pressures.
I liked him as a man who loved life, loved people, missed Homeland – besides this post-war period, present they spit so much. He was talking to Edward Gierek June 2, 1979:
"Dear Mr. First Secretary! Poland gets and is happy – in the interests of peace and good cooperation between the peoples of Europe (...) However, in this reply, I would first of all like to thank you for your very kind words to both the Holy See and my own. I join immediately to thank the State Authorities of the Polish People's Republic for so kindly joining the invitation of the Polish Episcopate (...) That the reason for being is the sovereignty of society, nation, homeland, it is We Poles, especially profoundly feeling. We have learned this through our full history, and especially through the hard experiences of the last centuries. We must never forget this terrible past lesson, which was the failure of Poland's independency of the late 18th century until the beginning of this century. This painful, in fact its negative experience has become a fresh forge of Polish patriotism. The word “Home” has specified a conceptual and emotional meaning for us at the same time, which another nations of Europe and the planet do not seem to know. Especially those who have not experienced specified as our nation's past losses, harm and threats. And that is why for our full generation specified a terrible shock was the last planet war and the business we experienced in Poland.
35 years of war this ended on all the Fronts. The fresh period in the past of our Homeland began with this moment. But we must not forget all the experiences of war and occupation. We cannot forget the lives of so many Poles and Poles. We must not forget the heroism of the Polish soldier who fought on all fronts of the planet “for our freedom and yours”. We respect and thank each another for the aid we received from others. We are bitterly reasoning of competitions that have not been spared us (...) Dear Sir First Secretary! Finally, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the Lord and respect for all his efforts. respect for all the advanced typical of the Authority, and at the same time for everyone in accordance with his or her office, his or her dignity, according to this large responsibility."
He was besides deprived of common in the Church of Russophobia today. At Auschwitz-Birkenau, June 6, 1979, he said: “And another plaque – chosen... Board with inscription in Russian. I'm not adding any comment. We know what kind of nation this board is talking about. We know what this nation was like in the last terrible war for the freedom of peoples. And we must not go over this board.”
I appreciate how he talked about his parents, about his family, Wadowice, Krakow, Tatras. As he said about the liberation of Poland from German Nazism. He was a man who experienced visible and expanding suffering and was able to endure it with dignity, setting a beautiful example of a brave and reasonable attitude in sickness and old age. He showed us old age as a period of increasing spiritual advantage over the weakening body. The laws of biology which clearly could not overcome but showed that the essence of humanity is spirituality and it counts. By this he emphasized the message expressed in the Easter triumph of "The Winners of Death, Hell and Satan."
Karol Wojtyła – John Paul II as a supporter of peace was close to me. On March 16, 2003, John Paul II, before praying to the Angel of the Lord in St Peter's Square in Rome, addressed the faithful who listened to him: "In the face of the terrible consequences that an global military operation would have for the people of Iraq and the balance of the whole, and so powerfully experienced, the region of the mediate East, and bearing in head the danger of the activity of extremism, I call to all: there is inactive time for negotiations; there is inactive a chance for peace; it is never besides late to communicate and proceed peace talks." He added: “I am a associate of this generation who experienced the nightmare of planet War II and who survived. To all young people and to all those who are younger than me and who have not experienced it themselves, present I have a work to say: No more war!'
Friend Mateusz Piskorski recalled any time ago the message of the Secretary of State of the Holy See Card. Angelo Sodano 2003: “We appeal to our American friends for reasonableness: do a conscience check and think first of all, does it make any sense from your point of view to irritate a billion believers in the Muslim community and draw on yourself the hostility of the full muslim planet for possibly decades? Is that what you want?”
And I was very close to John Paul II as a critic of the desire to enrich myself at all costs. "Do not be deceived by the imagination of immediate profit at the expense of others. Beware of all temptations of exploitation!" he called out to employers. "In an age of unprecedented technological improvement and modern technology, the drama of hunger is simply a large challenge and an accusation! The earth is able to feed everyone. So why are thousands of people starving present in the late 20th century? A serious examination of conscience is needed here on a global scale – an examination of conscience from social justice, from simple human solidarity." In the Encyclical, “Centesimus Annus” wrote: "It is unacceptable that after the defeat of real socialism, capitalism remains the only model of an economical organization".
I liked him little as a politician, especially how he was politically utilized in Poland by different environments. mostly those that had small to do with Polishness. His long presence on the planet phase gave us a feeling of deceptive security. We believed that it was “our man in the Vatican” who was there to defend Poland, and that the interests of Poland and the Church were the same.
I did not like his commitment to the process of overthrowing the socialist state and consequently expanding global influence. In this way, we have easy believed in the selfless overthrow of socialism by the Western agendas, let ourselves be rushed to the European Union on vile terms, and put to sleep our vigilance against the expanding offensive of claims and the usurpation of influential communities in the US. It is worth discussing the intellectual and moral legacy of Karol Wojtyła. However, we should not follow the globalistic guidelines that make us detest everything that is associated with tradition, truth, morality.
Łukasz Marcin Jastrzębski
Think Poland, No. 49-50 (6-13.12.2020)
