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Published : 2020-11-10
Vol. 31 No. 1 (2020)

Church in the service of Uniting Europe

Józef Kulisz

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7624-128X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30439/2020.1.1

Abstract

The 19th century was a time of great discoveries and technical inventions that changed the face of Europe and enriched the everyday life of humans. In the mainstream of these changes we find rationalist scientism rejecting the values of tradition but recognizing human reason as the norm of all truth. In the 20th century, attempts were made to show that in a culture in which human beings try to understand themselves, all that is needed is a science that provides a reasonably comfortable life. The lack of a creative dialogue between Christianity and the new culture meant that the former became a kind of ”locked fortress”, which in fact meant the growing apart of faith and culture. Paul VI called it the drama of our time. The time of the Founding Fathers – creators of the ”uniting Europe”, the time of the Second Vatican Council, as well as the great pontificate of popes – John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis – is a time of a new creative dialogue of the Church with the present, a dialogue in which the Church wants to help Europe discover in its history a vital and inseparable connection between heaven and earth and that it becomes again a valuable reference point for all humanity

Keywords

Europe ; tradition ; culture ; human being ; sense ; new evangelisation Europa ; tradycja ; kultura ; człowiek ; sens ; nowa ewangelizacja



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