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  Blessed Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński · Catholic Social Teaching · Poland · Soli Deo

  Love & Social Justice

  Reflections on Society

   

  Blessed Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński
  Translated by Filip Mazurczak

  Special clearance paperback price First English translation Paperback & Hardback Arouca Press

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  A profound Polish Catholic answer to the social question: man, family, labor, property, nation, state, and Church under the sovereignty of God.

  The Primate of the Millennium on social justice

   

  ✠ OVERVIEW ✠

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  Originally published as Miłość i sprawiedliwość społeczna. Rozważania społeczne, fragmenty III Kolekcji — Wyprawa na wyprawy społeczne (Pallotinum Publishing House, 1993).  Kind permission granted by the Instytut Prymasowski Stefana Kardynała Wyszyńskiego (Warsaw) for this first ever English translation.

  This publication has been supported by the ©POLAND Translation Program.  Scripture references taken from the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition and the Douay-Rheims version.  Translated by Filip Mazurczak

  Beatified in Warsaw in 2021, Blessed Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński (1901–1981) is widely recognized as one of Poland's greatest heroes of the twentieth century. Exercising the function of Primate of Poland from 1948 until his death, he reminded the Polish people of their Christian heritage and opposed the abuses of the communist regime; his popularity made him the Polish communist's worst nightmare.

  In this collection, which is bound to become a classic, Cardinal Wyszyński provides an astute reflection on the greatest social and political problems of the twentieth century, including Marxism, fascism, capitalism, and the decline of the family.

  Why this book matters

  Wyszyński’s social thought is neither ideological slogan nor sentimental humanitarianism. It is a Catholic account of justice grounded in the dignity of the person, the sanctity of the family, the rights of labor, the moral limits of the state, and the kingship of Christ over social life.

  Human dignity

  A defense of the human person against reduction to race, class, production, or state power.

  Man and family

  A Catholic account of marriage, motherhood, education, family wages, and social life.

  Labor and property

  A vision of work, ownership, stewardship, and economic life governed by moral law.

  Nation and Church

  A Polish Catholic reflection on fatherland, state authority, freedom, and the reign of Christ.

   

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  The heart of the nation is in the Heart of God.

  The Heart of God Is the Heart of the Nation

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  We have to demand that human rights are respected.

  Human Rights

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  The human community is the collective family of God’s children, of brothers in Christ.

  “Woe to Him Who Is Alone”

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  We must return to God’s Ten Commandments.

  The social order under God

   

  ✦ A MAP THROUGH THE VOLUME ✦

  Volume I

  Man and Family in Social Life
  Human dignity, family, education, motherhood, and the working class.

  Volume II

  The Nation, State, and Church
  Fatherland, sovereignty, state authority, freedom, and Christ’s kingdom.

  Volume III

  The Social Crusade
  The social question, economic disorder, Catholic action, and Christian community.

  Volume IV

  The Labor System and Property
  Labor, factory life, Sunday rest, property, stewardship, and the common good.

  For Catholic social thought

  This volume belongs beside Rerum novarum, Quadragesimo anno, Divini redemptoris, and the great twentieth-century Catholic responses to social disorder.

  For readers of Polish Catholic history

  The book reveals the spiritual and social principles that later animated Wyszyński’s witness as Primate of Poland under communism.

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  An indispensable volume for readers seeking a Catholic understanding of social justice rooted in love, truth, the family, the dignity of labor, and the sovereignty of Christ over public life.

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  Praise for Blessed Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński

  Reviews & Endorsements for Love & Social Justice

  A major work of Polish Catholic social thought, commended for its clarity, courage, prophetic force, and enduring relevance.

   

  Blessed Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński · Translated by Filip Mazurczak

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  Voices from Catholic scholarship, biography, journalism, and social thought testify to the importance of this first English translation.

  A Polish Catholic witness for the twenty-first century

   

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  A brilliant, still relevant Catholic response to the social and economic quandaries facing modern society by a towering figure of the twentieth century Church.

   

  —Ewa K. Czaczkowska
  biographer of Cardinal Wyszyński

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  Blessed Stefan Wyszyński was one of the great churchmen of the twentieth century. His reflections on the dramatic times in which he lived have much to say to our troubled twenty-first century.

   

  —George Weigel
  Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies

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  Cardinal Wyszyński was qualified like few others to write a synthesis of Catholic Social Teaching. He not only knew it abstractly, he lived it heroically, as he bore witness before (and against) the militant neo-paganism of fascist and communist regimes, and as he strove to confirm a Catholic nation in its adherence to the kingship of Christ and the queenship of Mary.

  Remarkable for their candor, clarity, and courage, Wyszyński’s words resound still more forcefully in the twenty-first century, when the foundations of our common life and Catholic identity are being undermined as never before.

  How many writers nowadays devote an entire chapter to the duties and glories of Christian motherhood? How many write glowingly about true patriotism, and why the State itself must be “God-fearing” if it wishes to prosper? How many Catholics dare to point to the social acids of capitalism while strenuously rejecting the false allurements of socialism? We have much to learn and re-learn from this prince of the Church.

   

  —Dr. Peter A. Kwasniewski
  editor of A Reader in Catholic Social Teaching

  Relevance

  A Catholic response to modern social and economic questions.

  Witness

  The thought of a great twentieth-century churchman.

  Courage

  A text marked by candor, clarity, and moral force.

  Tradition

  A recovery of Catholic social teaching in public life.

   

  ✦ REVIEWS & ESSAYS ✦

  Further reading

  Essay Stefan Wyszyński, European Statesman David M. Klocek, PhD Review Love & Social Justice presents the prophetic voice of St. John Paul II mentor Nick Olszyk · Catholic World Report Review Writings from a Heroic Anti-Communist Dr. Danusha V. Goska · Frontpage Review What is Social Justice? Greg Cook · Catholic Exchange

• European Catholicism, Bl. Cardinal Wyszyński, and JP2’s Legacy in Poland with Filip Mazurczak

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