Spirala pomówień czy walka o dusze? Wokół polityki na ambonie w kazaniu radiowym abp. Teodorowicza
Spiral of Slanders or Fight for Souls? Politics on the Pulpit in the Radio Sermon of Archbp. Teodorowicz

Summary/Abstract: Priests’ involvement in politics stirs up intense emotions today as well as in the past. It seems that the casus of the sermon for Lent delivered by archbp. J. Teodorowicz and broadcast on the Polish Radio in 1938 may represent a valuable contribution to the research on admissibility of politics on the pulpit. In his sermon the Lvov’s archbishop of Armenian-Catholic Rite entered the delicate field of politics by calling peasant universities “poisoned schools”. That bold statement triggered an avalanche of protests and aroused quite a lot of political emotions. It seems that these words proved to be too strong and personal on the lips of a preacher. That incident, however, does not diminish the significance of archbishop’s sermons in the history of Polish preaching. Nevertheless, it shows that since a radio statement can cause such a spiral of grudges and slanders, the preacher should con-sider the feelings of every listener, whether a peasant university’ activist or a faithful of the catholic Church.

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