OD KOŚCIOŁA EUROPEJSKIEGO DO KOŚCIOŁA RODZIMEGO. MISYJNE NAUCZANIE PAPIESKIE XX WIEKU
From the European Church to the Native Church. Papal Missionary Teachings in the 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: The Catholic Church’s missionary activities, particularly from the period of great geographical discoveries, was set on the socalled “plantatio Ecclesiae” and for several centuries was based on the system of colonization and the so-called Right of Patronage. Even though many initiatives of the Holy See at that time aimed to remove politics from the missions and make the peoples the subject of the missions, it was only the fall of the Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires, primarily the First World War, that generated the need for a completely new form of Evangelization processes. These principles – in the context of full awareness and precisely de ning missionary goals – were clear- ly formulated in of cial Church documents beginning with Benedict XV through the decree of the Second Vatican Council, ending with the work and teaching of John Paul II. Such documents as: Maximum illud by Benedict XV, Rerum Ecclesiae by Pius XI, Evangelii praecones and Fidei donum by Pius XII, Princeps pastorum by John XXIII, and the decrees Ad gentes or Redemptoris missio by John Paul II unanimously speak on behalf of the need to create native Churches while respecting the culture and traditions of the nations undergoing missionary activity.

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