I had a dream about how Poles under Lech Wałęsa regained freedom for Poland, I had a dream that the bad time for our country ended.
Unmoveable.
The emergence of our nation and statehood is mostly due to the Church – and it was for generations that he did not let us to take this Poland away.
It could have been so beautiful.
However, the individual ambitions of Lech Wałęsa and Jarosław Kaczyński blew up this beautiful vision.
This detonation was an attack on Jerzy Turowicz – 1 of the most crucial Catholic intellectuals of the 20th century. He was not only the creator and editor of “The Weekly of the Common”. For more than half a century he directed this letter, making it a forum of independent thought in the times of the Polish People's Republic. He was considered a symbol of dialogue, openness and ethical journalism.
When the “war on the mountain” began (1990–1991), Turowicz tried to halt it by referring to the Gospel.
He then recalled that:
• The Church should be open and dialogueal,
• Poland needs national reconciliation, not revolution.
• Only the peaceful construction of democracy makes sense due to the fact that revenge never built anything.
But then Polish hell fell on Turowicz – on the 1 hand Wales, on the another Kaczyński.
The Polish soul heads towards the right, nationalism, racism and the Church, but ritual. The Gospel, though spoken with the pathos, remains superficial.
Whoever thinks that going more and more to the right is serving the Nation is choosing the way leading to his paralysis. Do we request to match the Church's pre-war alliance with the intention?
It was not possible to save Polish spirituality from lying and betrayal, from blinding the head and banality of the phrase, from fanaticism and cynicism.
The disaster was that mercy was brought to the function of a fig leaf. They were pushed out of the world, contemptuously calling them “humanity” or “sentimentism”.
We attribute kindness to ourselves with extraordinary ease – without any basis. Thus we absolve ourselves of everything, convinced that we have “the heart in the right place” and that “we would not hurt the fly.” However, we have frequently failed to make any real sacrifice for another man.
All we gotta do is be happy to consider ourselves good. It would be much harder for us to call ourselves restrained, virtuous, or humble in the same circumstances.
