Zmagania wokół utworzenia Ligi Katolickiej w diecezji sandomierskiej

Abstract

The Catholic Convention in Warszawa (28-30 August 1926) included within its resolutions a call for the establishment of the Catholic League in all dioceses of Poland. The works on its organization in the Sandomierz diocese were to be carried out by the committees set up on the occasion of the convention. In January 1927 Rev. Prelate Kazimierz Sykulski was nominated secretary general of the Catholic League. In that time a healed debate triggered on its statute, and the priests differed as to their evaluation of the need for the establishment of such a new organization. The Sandomierz bishop Marian Ryxa did not take a firm stance. Eventually, the odds for the approval of the statute were written off by the Episcopate conference in September 1928. It established a Commission of the Catholic League whose task was to work out a uniform statute for all the Catholic Leagues. Il was then that the approval of the statute, which had been changed eight times, had no sense, for it would have been changed soon. Despite that, the experience gained during that period in the Sandomierz diocese turned out to be very useful and bore fruit on the establishment the Catholic Action.