The confrontation of Marxism with Christianity in the social teaching of Blessed Stefan Wyszyński. History and the present

Abstract

From the rich legacy of Bl. Primate Stefan Wyszyński,  the article extracts two topics, precisely defined at the beginning of his academic work, as well as at the beginning of his episcopal ministry. They are entirely about the confrontation of Marxist ideology with Christianity. The teaching of Bl. Stefan Wyszyński allows to define the features of Marxism precisely which are prophetically extracted and therefore applicable to contemporary neo-Marxism. This thread was undertaken through the output of Fr. Stefan Wyszyński during his academic and editorial work in Włocławek in the 1930s. At the beginning of his episcopal ministry in Lublin, Bl. Bishop Stefan Wyszyński presented the power of Christianity in a synthetic and original way. These texts seem to be particularly instructive in the modern era in which on the one hand, the neo-Marxist "march through culture and institutions" (sometimes one may get the impression that also ecclesiastical ones) is made and on the other hand, the strength and originality of the Christian faith does not pass away.