Europa i jej kryzys w rozważaniach papieskich Jana Pawła II, Benedykta XVI i Franciszka. Wstęp do analizy treści

Abstract

The crisis of European integration has released three still current attitudes towards Christianity. The first assumes that Europe in its present shape betrayed Christianity, by itself becoming an anti‑Christian creation and ruin for its Church. So Europe is bad and integration with it is integration with evil. The second one boils down to acceptance for European integration, but after eliminating or taking into account many dangers. Europeanity should be adopted here at least carefully, if not selectively. The third assumes favor for Europe without major threats to national and religious identity. This, however, does not mean adopting a vision of Europe as a comprehensive medicine, but a conscious acceptance of the realities in which we lived. Three successive Popes refer to all these attitudes, who devoted many of their speeches to the crisis condition of Europe and European integration. They are fully proven by the fragments of their writings and speeches selected for this purpose. The author of the work, both in the case of John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Franciszek, decided to consciously give their words to readers ‑ both scientific (philosophical, political, historical and linguistic‑discursive) and spiritual, leaving them without commentary and further deliberations at this point hermeneutical.

Keywords

• Europe
• the European Union
• crisis
• papal deliberations
• collection
• John Paul II