Wiara jako odpowiedź na Boże powołanie a kwestia nietolerancji religijnej
Faith as the Response to God’s Calling and the Issue of Religious Intolerance

Summary/Abstract: The article is about the religious discrimination that Catholics today are suffering in different parts of the world. It tries to answer the question: what position should Catholics take in the face of their oppressors, if they want to be true to their faith? Therefore, the author raises another question: can religion, understood as a response to God’s call, be intolerant to other people. Thus it is a question of how religion is a response to God’s call? This also means: can professed faith be a blind realization of commandments, precepts, prohibitions, etc.? Consequently, it seems that the moral theologian cannot adequately describe faith, that is faith as a relationship with God, if he does not describe it as a relationship with man. This assumption allowed the author of the article to ascertain (proceeding from the Gospel concept of faith, i.e. analyzing the understanding of faith by St. Paul, St. John, the II Vatican Council) that the Catholic faith can and even must use the concept of justice in relation towards those who are intolerant, fanatic, those who are persecutors, and similar. However, this will be a special type of justice, that is justice according to the Gospel. This justice shows God as a good Father (pattern of conduct for Catholics, but also for all other believers), that is, as One always characterized by merciful love, towards enemies also. This, however, does not forbid, what more: this orders action against intolerance and persecution, which will be of a missionary nature. This implies a sharing of the truth, especially religious and moral (ethical) truth. This sharing is understood not as a revenge for the suffered injustice, but evangelically, i.e. as a sharing the best one has with brothers, sharing what has the dimension of true love (caritas).

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