Ideologia społeczno-patriotyczna Kościoła polskokatolickiego w propagandzie duchownych polskokatolickich

Abstrakt

The same reasons originated the "national" social-patriotic ideology and brought about the establishment of the Polish-Catholic Church in the United States, and, finally, these same reasons implanted it in Poland. Then the propagation of that ideology decided for the acceptance and development of the Polish-National Church.

In the States it was patriotism that played the main role, while in Poland social questions were emphasized, without highlighting dogmatic differences between the Roman-Catholic Church and the Polish-Catholic Church. Some main aspects of the social-patriotic ideology on the part of the Polish-Catholic Church boil down to: fighting against the dependence of Polish Catholicism on the Vatican, criticizing the social attitude of the Roman-Catholic clergy, bearing grudges end laying charges against the state administration, pointing at the "alliance of the throne and the altar" as a reactive power, guilty of all evil.

Spreading such slogans and words in the "national" ideology aroused suspicion as to some links between the Polish Catholic clergy and parties which favoured socialism and communism. This kind of charge of colaboration emerged from the struggle for the same or similar goals- Radical political parties wanted to overthrow the government and gain power, while the Polish-Catholic Church wanted to replace or at least lessen the influence of the Roman-Catholic Church, and thus be provided for. That is why both the government opposition and the "national" clergymen based their propaganda on the assumption which were most topical and popular in the interwar period, and hence almost identical.