MODERN THREATS IN THE CONTEXT
OF FREEDOM „ŻOLIBORZ MESSAGES” OF BLESSED FATHER JERZY POPIELUSZKO Cover Image

WSPÓŁCZESNE ZAGROŻENIA WOLNOŚCI W KONTEKŚCIE „ŻOLIBORSKIEGO PRZESŁANIA” BŁ. KS. JERZEGO POPIEŁUSZKI
MODERN THREATS IN THE CONTEXT OF FREEDOM „ŻOLIBORZ MESSAGES” OF BLESSED FATHER JERZY POPIELUSZKO

Author(s): Grzegorz Kamil Szczecina
Subject(s): History, History of Church(es), Political history, Theology and Religion, Systematic Theology
Published by: Instytut Teologiczno-Pastoralny im. św. Józefa Sebastiana Pelczara w Rzeszowie
Keywords: Jerzy Popieluszko; freedom; dignity; man; contemporaneity; threats; sermon

Summary/Abstract: One of the many topics that have found their place in the teaching of Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko was the truth about freedom and human dignity. Żoliborz preacher of his life, and in every sermon preached during the Mass. for the Homeland in the church Stanislaus Kostka in Warsaw's Żoliborz, courageously stood in defense of fundamental values that shape society and man. The issue of freedom he effected a distinction between freedom: inside and outside. Despite the many socio-political changes in Poland and Europe in many regions of the world. Especially when changes leading to democracy and economic liberalism, human freedom is sometimes treated lightly. Freedom „external and internal” so much at stake in times of ministry of Fr. Popieluszko, is again in danger of enslavement „interior” of man through various ideologies and trends. „Martyr of communism” very often emphasized that the freedom given to man is not itself a goal, but a means to an end, and this goal is good, namely, love. What regulates the correct procedure in freedom and using it, the Decalogue, and guided by the law of God's love. He expressed Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko in his preaching. Life Christian truth, he put a sensible use of the gift of freedom.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 291-304
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish