Cultural Marxism and Pope JPII Jablonska

Wind From Heaven: John Paul II–The Poet Who Became Pope, by Monika Jablonska, Krzysztof Dybciak (Epilogue), Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz (Foreword). 2017

The Intellectual and Spiritual Depth of the Thinking of Saint John Paul II. Communism and Now Cultural Marxism Deify Man

This delightful work makes it obvious that Pope John Paul II was a man of deep intellect as well as deep spirituality. His output had been prodigious: It included 14 encyclicals, 45 apostolic letters, And 20 volumes of 1000 pages each. (pp. 41-42). He inspired Andre Frossard, a French Jew, atheist, and journalist, to convert to Catholicism. (p. 83).

Author Monika Jablonska follows a non-chronological format. She eventually gets around to describing Karol Wojtyla’s early years, his ordeals under the German and Soviet occupations of Poland, his stunning election to the papacy in 1978, his dramatic visit to Poland in 1979, his involvement with the Solidarity movement, and his meeting with President Reagan in 1984. Both men envisioned the end of Communism. And so it came to pass.

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I now move beyond the immediate contents of this book in order to relate them to the challenges facing Poland today, now 13 years after the death of Pope JPII.

COMMUNISM DEIFIED MAN. BUT SO DOES THE EUROPEAN UNION, AND SO DOES CULTURAL MARXISM

Monika Jablonska quotes from Pope John Paul II’s encyclical, CENTESIMUS ANNUS, “‘Communism was a spiritual failure because of its Promethean attempt to build a new world, one from which God would be banished, and to create a new man, whose conscience had no room for God.’” (p. 31).

Nowadays, this sobering fact extends to the EU, and its refusal to acknowledge so much as a nominal presence of Christianity in its thinking. In addition, cultural Marxism, which increasingly reigns in the west’s academia, media, and entertainment industries, completely disregards God and morality, and treats hedonistic individualism as the only thing that matters.

SIGNIFICANCE OF POLISH ROMANTICISM TODAY

The author points out that Pope John Paul II had always been inspired by Polish Romantic and neo-Romantic poets, especially Cyprian Kamil Norwid. (pp. 31-32). This began early in his life, as described by Jablonska, “Already in high school, young Wojtyla intensively absorbed the classics of Polish romanticism. The great poets of the nineteenth century were defender of the soul of the nation during that period, an era of partitions, uprisings, and stubborn efforts by the two partitioning powers of Russia and Germany to destroy the native Polish culture and language through forced absorption into their own traditions.” (p. 61).

The informed reader probably realizes that Polish Romanticism is under attack today. Very many publications (check my many reviews under “Jesus Christ of Nations”) complain that Poles are not accepting the truth of Holocaust-related accusations because of their residual belief in themselves as the Jesus Christ of Nations.