Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain

170 PIOTR H. KOSICKI “Open Catholicism” But the story of the Polish laity’s engagement with Vatican II is about much more than b ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 171 both international and national. Its activists were happy to be “bringing much into the common good of ...

172 PIOTR H. KOSICKI tion of the Council’s debates, teachings, and legacy. As the Coun- cil unfolded, Więź, Znak, and Tygodnik P ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 173 prose style that distinguished him from many of his colleagues; and the unwavering support of Więź’s e ...

174 PIOTR H. KOSICKI pora.” For this reason, the Church’s core mission—“mission in the spirit of an ‘open’ attitude”146—needed t ...

ers and intellectual architects were Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Ja- nusz Zabłocki, who had become close friends over the course of f ...

176 PIOTR H. KOSICKI self-proclaimed “people’s republic.” When Mazowiecki spoke of Poland as a “secular, pluralistic country,” h ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 177 method of social engineering... from the standpoint of efficacy, from a pragmatic standpoint, seeing p ...

178 PIOTR H. KOSICKI and Zawieyski up with Casaroli, Poggi, and Samorè in the 1960s had earlier facilitated most of the contacts ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 179 into his hands.166 This illegal leaking of confidential drafts by a lay auditor made it possible for Z ...

180 PIOTR H. KOSICKI Council was Jerzy Turowicz, who had access to the largest Polish- language readership of any journalist, as ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 181 en-scène for the faithful back in Poland. Turowicz, in particular, graced his reporting with amusing a ...

182 PIOTR H. KOSICKI sided, following preparatory sessions in Rome.175 One of the con- gress’s principal tasks was to set the ag ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 183 historian Étienne Gilson. At the same time, he also developed a friendship with one of Vatican II’s mo ...

184 PIOTR H. KOSICKI Even though his time at the Council was limited, Stefan Swie- żawski’s presence there substantially raised ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 185 clearly felt at home at the Council.183 He could communicate eas- ily with other delegations, and he a ...

186 PIOTR H. KOSICKI Skrzypczak argues, “The Polish bishops themselves, particularly in the last two conciliar sessions, deemed ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 187 meant taking responsibility for one’s choices, especially “in reli- gious matters.” This declaration c ...

188 PIOTR H. KOSICKI the nature of their involvement in the life of the Church. The cap- stone event of Wojtyła’s pre-pontifical ...

VATICAN II AND POLAND 189 traveled to meetings of the Pontifical Commission Iustitia et Pax, one could see the growing interest ...