The Catholic Church, as a moral authority for many Poles, has a peculiar work for responding to the language of contempt, exclusion and alleged symbolic violence, regardless of who uses it.
The statements of politicians, specified as Krzysztof Bosak, who described another people as “waste”, or the actions of Grzegorz Braun – denying the existence of gas chambers in Auschwitz and directing his aggression towards the judaic community – go far beyond the limits of civilised political dispute. It's profoundly moral.
The silence of the hierarchical Church at specified moments can be for decent people not only incomprehensible, but painful and unacceptable.
Appearances of reaction – symbolic gestures or general statements – are only a fig leaf. In fact, they stay silent.
This is not a question of “confusion into politics” but of a clear reminder of the dignity of all human being – regardless of his nationality, origin, religion or views. The Church cannot be silent erstwhile human dignity is trampled on – just as it should not be silent towards another forms of social injustice or hatred speech.
I thought the times erstwhile part of the Church flirted with Nazism were gone. I don't want this historical, graphic hint to offend anyone – it's a warning. past teaches that a deficiency of clear opposition to evil can be a form of sharing.
That is why today, in democratic Poland, people – besides from outside the Catholic community – have the right – and work – to request courage, integrity and clear voice from pastoralists in matters that affect conscience and common good.
What am I talking about?
During Saturday's appeal at Jasna Góra, Bishop Antoni Długosz prayed for the Border Defence Movement and warned against the threat of migration, and Bishop Wiesław Mering thundered: "The bishop's work is to introduce Christ into politics, due to the fact that politics without Christ is the nation's top scourge," and "We are ruled by people who specify themselves as Germans. In the 18th century, 1 of the Polish poets, Wacław Potocki, said: 'How the planet will not be a German brother'.
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