PRASA KATOLICKA W KRÓLESTWIE POLSKIM W LATACH 1905-1914 WOBEC IDEI NOWOCZESNEJ OŚWIATY I OBYWATELSTWA

Author(s): Aneta Bołdyrew,Renata Bednarz-Grzybek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 118/2022

The Catholic press in the Kingdom of Poland at the beginning of the 20th century covered the situation of the Church in the changing social reality and discussed and critically commented on Western concepts of modernisation. Publicists searched for ways of shaping modern society and the defining the role of the Church in this process that suited domestic conditions. The discourse on modernity addressed issues of education and citizenship, among others. Magazines addressed mainly to the clergy and published over a longer period of time were used as representative subjects in the study, including Przegląd Katolicki, Ateneum Kapłańskie, Wiadomości Pasterskie, Kronika Diecezji Kujawsko- Kaliskiej, Kronika Diecezji Sandomierskiej, Przegląd Diecezjalny w Kielcach and Wiadomości Archidiecezjalne Warszawskie. They promoted contemporary knowledge about the ways in which the Church supports school and extracurricular education, and pointed out the symbiotic relationship between the education of the younger generations and the consolidation of religious values, the shaping of civic attitudes and concern for the ethical dimension of the social community. The article adopts a research strategy based on the social conception of the history of education. Methods of historical and pedagogical research and of press discourse analysis were applied. The formal and editorial issues of the periodicals are briefly discussed, focussing primarily on educational and civic issues as they appeared in the Catholic social press after 1905 and on the problems of extracurricular education.

ARCHIWUM PARAFII WAŁECKIEJ. INWENTARZ

Author(s): Tadeusz Ceynowa / Language(s): Polish Issue: 118/2022

The article presents the preserved archives of the Catholic parish of St Nicholas in Wałcz, Poland. The town was founded at the beginning of the 14th century; the first church was founded at the same time. Until the Reformation, the parish in Wałcz belonged to the Archdeaconry of Zanoteć in the diocese of Poznań. At the beginning of the 16th century, the church was returned to Catholics and the parish became part of the newly established deanery of Czarnków. In 1772, the Wałcz land was incorporated into Prussia. After the reactivation of the Wałcz deanery at the end of the 18th century, it was continuously part of the country, despite the changing political and church realities. The Wałcz region returned to Poland in 1945. The pre-war archives of the parish of St Nicholas was transferred to the diocesan archives in Koszalin. There they were developed, inventoried and divided into series with new reference numbers (1-326). The rich historical material can be used for more in-depth specialised research.

O XVII-WIECZNYCH IKONACH WARSZTATU MUSZYŃSKIEGO W MUZEUM PARAFIALNYM W GRYBOWIE

Author(s): Agnieszka Gronek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 118/2022

There is an interesting collection of icons in the Parish Museum in Grybów. Although their exact provenance is unknown, it is clear that they are here thanks to Jan Solak, the parish priest of St. Kateryna’s church in Grybów from 1921 to 1961, who moved them from nearby churches deserted after Operation Vistula. On the basis of stylistic analysis and comparative studies, it was possible to see that most of them came from workshops which operated in Lemkovyna during the 17th century. The studies presented here concern two previously unknown icons from the circle of Muszyna painters. These are two fragments of the apostolic tier from an unknown church. As a result of detailed research, it was possible to identify the stylistically closest works (from Matysowa, Banica, Brunary), assign the time of creation (c. 1640), find the next part of the described apostolic row in the Regional Museum in Nowy Sącz and determine its provenance (Brunary).

TERCJARZE ŚW. FRANCISZKA Z ASYŻU W DIECEZJI CHEŁMIŃSKIEJ I GDAŃSKIEJ OD POŁOWY XIX WIEKU DO 1992 ROKU

Author(s): Mirosław Kuczkowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 118/2022

The present study attempts to show the movement of the Tertiary in two of the dioceses: Chełm and Gdańsk. The chronological range of the work covers the period between the second half of the nineteenth century up to the twentieth century, when in 1992 the Polish church was administratively reorganised. The Third Order of Saint Francis from Assisi, nowadays known as the Franciscan Lay Order, has existed since the eighth century. Its basis has been penitential movements. The influence of Francis of Assisi together with his followers made the penitential groups more secular. In the Third Order there were people of various alliances, clergy, kings, the poor and the rich. Over the centuries, the Church has recognised almost 300 Tertiaries. The Franciscan Tertiary has been active in Pomerania for many centuries. One of the first congregations of the Third Order of Saint Francis of Assisi in Chełm diocese was the community from Wejherowo (1862) and the first community from The Free City of Gdańsk (before the Gdańsk diocese was established) was the congregation at Holy Trinity Parish in Gdańsk Oliwa. The most dynamic time for the development of the Tertiary movement was the interwar period (1918-1939). After World War II the movement weakened, one reason for it being the greater power of the communists relative to that of the Church in Poland.

PARAFIA PW. ŚW. JANA CHRZCICIELA W TRZCIANCE I JEJ KSIĘGI METRYKALNE DO 1945 ROKU

Author(s): ŁUKASZ PIOTR NOWAK / Language(s): Polish Issue: 118/2022

The article broadens the current knowledge about the history of the parish of St John the Baptist in Trzcianka before 1945. It has been established that it certainly existed in the early 17th century and was possibly established as early as the 16th century. Until the second half of the 18th century, it operated as the Holy Trinity Parish, then its name was changed to the current one. Over more than three centuries, the churches and parish buildings fell victim to several fires and were rebuilt. The first two churches (before 1628 and 1717) were wooden, while the next two (1835 and 1917) were made of brick. The parish has also changed state and church administrative affiliations many times. The oldest preserved parish books date back to 1730 and are stored in the Archive of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg Diocese in Koszalin. By searching 17th- and 18th-century parish visitation records in the Archdiocesan Archives in Poznań, we were able to partially reconstruct information about unpreserved parish books that may have been burnt in the Trzcianka parsonage fire in 1730. The search in the state archives also made it possible to locate duplicates of the 19th-century record books of Trzcianka.

DZIEJE PARAFII PW. ŚW. STANISŁAWA – BISKUPA I MĘCZENNIKA W GRÓDKU PODOLSKIM W LATACH 1941-1991

Author(s): Vladyslav Rozhkov / Language(s): Polish Issue: 118/2022

At the end of the 18th century there were two churches in Gorodok Podolski – one dedicated to St Anne and St Anthony and the other to St Stanislaus the Bishop and Martyr. In 1935, these temples were closed by the Soviet authorities and soon after damaged, including the chapel that was built in 1845 in the cemetery part, depriving Catholics in Gorodok of pastoral care. The revival of religious life in Soviet Ukraine occurred during the German occupation period. The faithful regained their temples and were able to worship freely. In 1943, thanks to the efforts of the Catholics of Grodno, Rev. Franciszek Oleń from the Diocese of Lutsk began to visit the cemetery, where he celebrated Mass and administered the sacraments. Towards the end of 1944, Rev. Jan Olszanski, a 25-year-old priest from the Lviv archdiocese and future bishop of the Kamenets-Podilsky Diocese, assumed the post of parish priest in Gorodok. His catechisation of children, which was forbidden in the USSR, caused him to be expelled to the village of Manikowce in 1959. Over the years, pastoral care for the Catholics of Gorodok was provided by commuting priests. It was not until 1970 that Rev. Franciszek Karasiewicz was assigned to St Stanislaus Parish, serving there as pastor until 1977. Due to his deteriorating health, caused by constant harassment from the local authorities, the clergyman left Gorodok Podolski and was replaced by Rev. Wladyslaw Wanags, M.I.C.

SCENY BIBLIJNE NA ŚREDNIOWIECZNYCH PIECZĘCIACH ŚLĄSKICH PROBOSZCZÓW

Author(s): Jagn Rita SOBEL / Language(s): Polish Issue: 118/2022

This article deals with the appearance of biblical scenes on the medieval seals of Silesian parish priests, which is one of the least examined areas of sigillography. Six imprints from the 13th through 15th centuries are analysed, belonging to Wojslaw, the parish priest of Otmuchow; Bertold, the parish priest of Nowy Kosciol; Stefan, the parish priest of Nysa; Jan, the parish priest of Wegry; Tomasz, the parish priest of Strzelin; and Jan Bawde, the parish priest of St Peter’s Church in Legnica. The above-mentioned analysis confirms the adoption of biblical scenes on parish sigils. Moreover, all six cases exhibit references to the New Testament. Five of the seals show events known from the Gospel: the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary or the baptism of Jesus (the only reproduction available today is blurry, preventing a clear interpretation of the image it represents), the Flight into Egypt, the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ and his meeting with St Thomas. One of the imprints portrays the scene of Archangel Michael’s Battle with the Dragon as it is described in the Apocalypse of St John. The iconography of those sigils is related to the iconosphere that surrounded its disposers. Such a measure proved that a parish priest’s choice of sigil image was not always influenced by the patrocinium of his parish church; sometimes the images represented only their personal piety. However, the scarcity of those relics proves that they are exceptions among the seals of Silesian parish priests.

In the Pursuit of Degrowth. Reformed Churches’ Theological Critique of Capitalism

Author(s): Przemysław Kantyka / Language(s): English Issue: 21/2021

The article discusses the theological criticism of capitalism on the part of the Reformed Churches. The four main themes of criticism are: 1) immoderate accumulation of goods and capital and the commodification of man; 2) leading Third World countries to unpayable debt; 3) plundering of natural goods and environmental damage; 4) the trap of unrestrained growth. The idea of “degrowth” is proposed as an effective way out of these threats. This idea consists of moderation in the production of goods adapted in volume to real needs, respect for the environment by implementing the principles of sustainable development, and finally adopting the attitude of self-restraint as a necessary form of asceticism. “Degrowth” is therefore an idea that also brings together the ways to overcome the “economy of greed” and introduce the “economy of life.”

Churches, Peoples, Places and Habbits from the Once upon a Time Banat Highland

Author(s): Florin Dobrei / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

More than a hundred years ago, a young theologian from south of the Carpathians, Nicolae Popescu, undertook a short visit to the Banat, noted in an original travel diary, that contains precious descriptions of cities, villages and worker colonies he travelled through, with the customs and habits of their inhabitants, parts of an invaluable spiritual dowry, which is being undeservingly engulfed today by the dust of oblivion.

Papież Benedykt XVI, Mystagogia Benedicti. Wprowadzenie w tajemnice roku liturgicznego. Objawienie Pańskie. Od drugiej Niedzieli po Bożym Narodzeniu do święta Ofiarowania Pańskiego, red. ks. Andrzej Demitrów, Biskupów 2020

Author(s): Andrzej Sebastian Jasiński OFM / Language(s): Polish Issue: 25/2021

Papież Benedykt XVI, Mystagogia Benedicti. Wprowadzenie w tajemnice roku liturgicznego. Wielka Noc Zmartwychwstania Pańskiego. Niedziela Zmartwychwstania i Oktawa Wielkanocy, red. ks. Andrzej Demitrów, Biskupów 2021

Author(s): Andrzej Sebastian Jasiński OFM / Language(s): Polish Issue: 25/2021

Atti del settimo convegno RBS. International Studies on Biblical & Semitic Rhetoric, F. Graziano – R. Meynet – B. Witek (ed.), Seria: RBSem 30, Leuven: Peeters 2021

Author(s): Jerzy Bosowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 25/2021

TRĂSĂTURI SPECIFICE ALE TERMINOLOGIEI RELIGIOASE LA RUŞII-LIPOVENI DIN DOBROGEA

Author(s): Nina Macarov Halcă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2005

В настоящей работе сделана попытка выявить критерии и причины отклонений от образцовых форм в области религиозно-культовой лексики. На основе анализа контекстного употребления терминов показано отношение исследуемых старообрядческих групп к религии и законам своего вероисповедания, к современности а также способ восприятия ими современности и её оценка.

IERARHUL EMILIAN ÎN RECUNOȘTIINȚA URMAȘULUI DE ASTĂZI

Author(s): Lucian Mic / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 7-9/2021

In these days of commemoration of a century since the birth and the 25th anniversary of the passing of Bishop Emilian to the Lord, we strive to bring all our gratitude, both those who knew him and those who they did not know him. As every man carves light and shadow in earthly life through the places he travels through, our hierarch has left deep traces in the history of our Church and a legacy that we receive with gratitude and piety. We have the certainty that all those who have understood him, or may not have been able to understand him, receive the indulgent blessing of the hierarch, hoping that his soul has found peace and tranquility in the bosom of the Most Holy Trinity, which he has continually confessed.

CALEA CELUI NEBUN ESTE DREAPTĂ ÎN OCHII LUI... (PILDE 12, 15)

Author(s): Constantin Jinga / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 7-9/2021

The author analyzes the biblical lexemes for „mad / madness”, from both the Old and New Testaments. The paper highlights the meanings of these lexemes and the very diverse and complex realities they cover.

PERSONALITĂȚI ÎNMORMÂNTATE ÎN CIMITIRUL PAROHIEI TIMIȘOARA FABRIC

Author(s): Diacon Dorin Cătinean / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 7-9/2021

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church, decided that the year 2021 be declared in the Romanian Patriarchate as the homage Year of the Romanian pastoral care outside Romania and the Commemorative Year of those asleep in the Lord; the liturgical and cultural value of the cemeteries, insisting that throughout this year to be remembered important personalities of the parishes that have contributed to the smooth running of the social and religious life of the time.

DOUĂ SUTE DE ANI DE ÎNVĂȚĂMÂNT TEOLOGIC LA ARAD

Author(s): Anton Ilinca / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-3/2022

In the Arad area, after the establishment of the Orthodox Preparatory High School (1812), the first senior being the priest Dimitrie Țichindeal, in 1822 the Clerical School was established, for two years, with teachers Gherasim Raț and Gavril Guliani. The school had a seminary rank, receiving graduates from trivial school or high school. At the same time, he was established at the Orthodox Clerical Schools in Timișoara and Vârșeț, where he taught the future Metropolitan of Transylvania, Andrei Șaguna. Only in 1785, the priesthood can acquire higher education, at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology from the University of Chernivtsi (now in Ukraine) and the Faculty of Orthodox Theology from Vârșeț.

Walka o rząd ukraińskich dusz w Kościele kijowskim

Author(s): Marek Blaza / Language(s): Polish Issue: 688/2022

Kościół kijowski to spuścizna unikalna. Został utworzony przez patriarchat Konstantynopola, potem zdominowany przez patriarchat moskiewski, a teraz odzyskuje niezależność. Związany jest ściśle z prawosławiem, ale ma szereg powiązań z kulturą katolicką, najczęściej w wydaniu polskim.

Koniec trzeciego Rzymu? Przyszłość rosyjskiego prawosławia

Author(s): Siergiej Czapnin / Language(s): Polish Issue: 688/2022

Wojna Rosji przeciw Ukrainie zasadniczo zmniejsza wpływy Cerkwi moskiewskiej na terytorium postsowieckim. Patriarchat moskiewski nie zdoła zachować monopolu na prawosławie ani w krajach bałtyckich, ani w Białorusi, ani może nawet w Kazachstanie. Najznaczniejsze będą oczywiście straty w Ukrainie.

Anselm of Canterbury and the Third Reich: Gottlieb Söhngen on Upholding the Humanum Amid the Inhumane

Author(s): Emery De Gaàl / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Gottlieb Söhngen (1892-1971) is a figure of no small significance: he directed both Joseph Ratzinger’s (now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) dissertation and habilitation, and his writings on Anselm of Canterbury’s theological contri- butions illustrate the struggles of a then still nascent theological discipline: fundamental theology. Söhngen’s explorations occur within the context of National Socialist rule, while he teaches theology at Akademie Braunsberg in the eponymous city located in East Prussia (1937-45) during the dark years of the Third Reich. This investigation shows how very much Söhngen does justice to both Anselm’s oeuvre and the Roman Catholic statement, while nevertheless introducing pointers to pre-Christian, Germanic notions in order to flatter the Nazi rulers, but more importantly to underscore how pagan concepts ultimately indirectly prepare the ground for the implantation of the Gospel.