Religia i polityka w czasach permisywnych
Religion and politics at the time of permissiveness

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses an issue of interdependence between religion and politics. The author submits a proposition that the relations between them have been more and more difficult since the time of the French revolution, which introduced the standards of thinking alien to the Catholic civilization, as well politically as morally. The increasing discrepancy between Catholicism and present democratic order leads to the one-sided dependence of the religion on politics, in spite of the neutrality in a point of religious conscience declared by democracy. Nowadays democracy seems to take a form of a surrogate for the true religion, supposedly being able to fill an emptiness caused by the destruction of transcendent references of politics. In order to illustrate this process, two its phases have been analyzed: the defense of an alliance between altar and throne taken in hand by the ultramontane thinkers of the nineteenth century and the problems the Catholic Church has with the maintenance of the doctrinal discipline after the Vaticanum II. In this context the author animates the memory of two Polish critics of democratization process: the ultramontane writer Ignacy Łada-Łobarzewski, who was writing just after the French revolution and the priest Michał Poradowski, active in Chile as a critic of the theology of liberation.

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