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This article will present two media incidents that occurred in April 2019 in two dioceses of the Catholic Church in Poland. These events share several features, one of which – the burning of objects (which I described as modern autodafe) – is an important connecting factor. The purpose of the article will be cultural, media and religious studies analysis of these events.
Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council´s declaration, together with other Catholic Church documents from the 1970s and 80s and the innovative attitudes of Pope John Paul II during his pontificate radically altered the catholic Church´s approach to the Jews and Judaism. This reform helped to bring to light certain taboos, concealed for centuries in the Vatican vaults from the view of both the non-Catholic...
According to Madeley’s (2003) comparative framework of state–church relations in Europe, Poland is part of the historic Northeast-Southeast multi-confessional culture belt. The aim of this paper is to analyse the historic relationships between the Polish state and church in relation to this framework with special attention to the post-Second World War period and to the consequences for the Polish...
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