Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski jako ośrodek promieniowania kulturalnego w okresie międzywojennym

Abstract

The paper takes up the question of the University’s activity tending to raise the standard of Christian national culture. This activity was manifested in the publication action of learned studies, popular studies and periodicals. KUL’s professors published also outside the university in various periodicals and dailies with an all-Polish and local circulation. The inhabitants of Lublin (the so-called publica) were allowed to participate in lectures in the philosophy of life conducted for students. There was also organized a cycle of lectures within the frameworks of the Common University Lectures not only for Lublin, but for the surrounding regions as well. KUL’s professors took part in organizing various learned societies in Lublin and initiated learned conferences, as well as jubilee celebrations for the noted Poles. The university prepared a group of social activists for the whole country by the Society to Support Social Movement at the Catholic University of Lublin. It organized three-day holiday lectures for the clergy in order to widen their knowledge about the current events in the life of the Church. The Institute for Higher Religious Culture raised religious awareness among te intelligentsia. KUL’s professors worked within the framework of Social Board with the Primate of Poland, carrying out the program of social restructuring of the country in the light of the papal encyclicals. The Catholic University of Lublin was a centre of authority for the Society of Catholic Intelligentsia, the organization which gathered the Polish Catholic intelligentsia all over the country. KUL radiated also on the foreign milieus by taking part in international congresses and conferences, publishing learned papers in foreign languages, membership in international learned organizations, and contacts with many universities both in Europe and outside.