Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski w trosce o kształtowanie chrześcijańskiej postawy moralnej młodzieży

Abstract

The paper presents KUL’s activity tending to ensure students conditions favorable for the formation of a Christian attitude in life. This activity was manifested in KUL’s concern about intellectual deepening of the philosophy of life. With a view to this some additional lectures have been introduced in the syllabuses of lay faculties: Faculty of Law and Socio-Economic Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities. The additional lectures were in ethics, Christian philosophy, Patristic, history of the Church, religious literature, and canon law. Academic pastoral care was very efficient, introducing new methods of work (retreat, movement for the liturgical revival, pastoral care for young people conducted by young people). The university board supported in particular those youth organizations which lay stress on the formation of characters (Association of the Catholic Academic Youth "Regeneration", Marian Sodality). Young people’s organizations initiated the youth into social and charitable work. The teaching staff as well as founders and benefactors of the University, giving up their own benefits for the sake of the common good, had a very positive influence on young people. KUL’s students highly estimated university milieu in which they were not only educated but "fixed the principles of Christian morality and patriotism". During the occupation period graduates and students alike passed the exam of fidelity to the idea Deo et Patriae even then when one had to take a heroic decision to offer one’s life for these greatest values.