23 October (Monday)

DAY 1

THEOLOGY IN DIALOGUE WITH THE CONTEMPORARY – THE CHURCHAND TOTALITARIANISMS

9.00 Inauguration

(Archbishop of Lublin Stanisław Budzik – Grand Chancellor KUL,Rev. Prof. Dr hab. Mirosław Kalinowski – Rector KUL)

 

I) Karol Wojtyła and Stefan Wyszyński – allegations, realities, and activities of thecommunist secret service (9:30-11:00)

Moderator: Ryszard Montusiewicz (TVP Lublin)

1. Dr. Karol Nawrocki (IPN): "Priest, bishop, metropolitan, pope - guardian of Christianvalues in times of red totalitarianism" [PL]

2. Rev. Dr. Jan Dohnalik (UKSW): "Cardinal Karol Wojtyła in the face of sexual abuse ofminors in the Church - a canonical perspective" [PL]

3. Dr. hab. Paweł Skibiński (UW): “The phenomenon of St. John Paul II's pilgrimages tocommunist Poland. What SB sources tell us and what they do not tell us about thissubject” [PL]

4 Rev. Dr. Dominik Zamiatała CMF, prof. UKSW: "Stefan Wyszynski in the operationalmaterials of the SB in the People's Republic of Poland" [PL]

 

II) The Churches of the Three Seas – Resistance and Conformity (11:30-13:00)
Moderator: Grzegorz Miśtal
1. Prof. Dr. hab. Mieczyslaw Ryba (KUL): "The Church with the Nation. Primate Wyszynski and John Paul II - their role in the overthrow of communism" [PL]
2. Dr. Andrzej Grajewski: "Determinants of the socio-political situation of the Church in the Three Seas area after 1945" [PL]
3. Prof. Dr. Ivana Macháčková (Czech Republic): "Christianity in the Czech Republic - past and present" [EN]
4. Rev. Dr. Paul Siladi, assist. prof. (Romania): “The Mission of the Orthodox Church in Communist Romania: Between Resistance and Compromise” [EN]
5. Dr. Oleh Turiy (Ukraine): "The power of faith against the violence of the powerful: the experience of Ukrainian Greek-Catholics in the 20th century" [EN]

 

Accompanying events
• Exhibition: “My Children! Bishop Stefan Wyszyński Ordinary of Lublin 1946-1949” – KUL Hall of John Paul II College
• Exhibition on Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski at KUL the John Paul II Collegium
• Films about John Paul II and Cardinal S. Wyszyński (KUL Academy of New Media and TVP Lublin)

 

FAITH FOR ME AND FOR YOU – COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF

Musical interlude: Neocatechumenate Lublin

I) Who Needs the Bible and For What Purpose? (16:00-17:00)
• S. Dr hab. Judyta Pudełko PDDM (AKW)
• Rev. Dr Wojciech Węgrzyniak (UPJPII)
Moderator: Rev. Dr. Krzysztof Kinowski

 

II) Difficult Questions of the Church (17:30-18:30)
• Rev. Tomasz Nowak OP
• Prof. Dr hab. Kaja Kaźmierska (UŁ)
Moderator: Rev. Dr. hab. Grzegorz Barth, prof. of KUL
Musical interlude: Neocatechumenate Lublin

 

19:00: Holy Mass in KUL University Church with leading of Archbishop of Lublin
Stanisław Budzik – Grand Chancellor KUL

 

FAITH: IT MATTERS! – GOD CLOSE AT HAND
An evening of praise: Chemin Neuf, Guadalupe; “Miriam” Lublin School of Evangelization (20.00-22.00)
Animation: Rev. Adam Szymanski SJ, Dr. Paulina Mazurkiewicz, Monika Stojowska

 

[PL] - speech in Polish with simultaneously translation into English
[EN] - speech in English with simultaneously translation into Polish

 

Abstracts of the speeches can be found on the Polish website: Dzień 1

 

Project co-funded by the state budget, granted by the Polish Minister of Education and Science under the program "Excellent Science II - Support for scientific conferences"