Rome's most faithful daughter : the Catholic Church and independent Poland, 1914-1939 / Neal Pease.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pease, Neal.

Series:

Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Poland.

Catholic Church.

Secularism.

History.

Bishops.

International relations.

Poland--Foreign relations--Catholic Church.

Poland.

Poland--Church history--20th century.

Church history.

Catholic Church--Poland--History--20th century.

Catholic Church--Poland--Bishops--History--20th century.

Piłsudski, Józef, 1867-1935.

Piłsudski, Józef.

Church and state--Poland--History--20th century.

Church and state.

Secularism--Poland--History--20th century.

Poland--Politics and government--1918-1945.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xx, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2009]

Summary:

When an independent Poland reappeared on the map of Europe after World War I, it was widely regarded as the most Catholic country on the continent, as "Rome's Most Faithful Daughter." All the same, the relations of the Second Polish Republic with the Church-both its representatives inside the country and the Holy Se itself-proved far more difficult than expected. Rome's Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914-1939 presents the first scholarly history of the close but complex poitical relationship of Poland with the Catholic Church during the interwar period.

Neal Pease addresses the centrality of Poland in the Vatican's plans to convert the Soviet Union to Catholicism and the curious reluctance of each successive Polish government to play the role assigned to it. He also reveals the comlicated story of the relations of Polish Catholicism with Jews, Freemasons, and other minorities within the country and what the response of Pope Piux XII to the Nazi German invasion of Poland in 1939 can tell us about his controversial policies during World War II.

Both authoritative and lively, Rome's Most Faithful Daughter shows that the tensions generated by the interplay of church and state in Polish public life exerted great influence not only on the history of Poland but also on the wider Catholic world in the era between the wars.

Contents:

Polonia restituta : the Catholic Church and the revival of Poland

Il Papa Polacco : the making of Pius XI, 1918-1922

From constitution to concordat, 1921-1925

Papal blessing : church and state in the Piłsudski era, 1926-1935

The friends and enemies of Catholic Poland

Vilna and Lwów : the Catholic minorities of eastern Poland

Poland, the Orthodox, and the conversion of Russia

Post mortem : Piłsudski lies uneasy in the grave

Oratio pro pace : Pius XII and the coming of the Second World War.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821418550

0821418556

9780821418567

0821418564

OCLC:

286478574