Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter
Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American Studies Series
Series Editor: John J. Bukowczyk
Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self, edited by Bożena Shallcross
Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939, by Karen Majewski
Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979, by Jonathan Huener
The Exile Mission: The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939–1956, by Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann
The Grasinski Girls: The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made, by Mary Patrice Erdmans
Testaments: Two Novellas of Emigration and Exile, by Danuta Mostwin
The Clash of Moral Nations: Cultural Politics in Piłsudski’s Poland, 1926–1935, by Eva Plach
Holy Week: A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by Jerzy Andrzejewski
The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896–1939, by Sheila Skaff
Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914–1939, by Neal Pease
SERIES ADVISORY BOARD
M. B. B. Biskupski, Central Connecticut State University
Robert E. Blobaum, West Virginia University
Anthony Bukoski, University of Wisconsin-Superior
Bogdana Carpenter, University of Michigan
Mary Patrice Erdmans, Central Connecticut State University
Thomas S. Gladsky, Central Missouri State University (ret.)
Padraic Kenney, Indiana University
John J. Kulczycki, University of Illinois at Chicago (ret.)
Ewa Morawska, University of Essex
Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University
Brian Porter-Szûcs, University of Michigan
James S. Pula, Purdue University North Central
Thaddeus C. Radzilowski, Piast Institute
Daniel Stone, University of Winnipeg
Adam Walaszek, Jagiellonian University
Theodore R. Weeks, Southern Illinois University
Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter
The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914–1939
Neal Pease
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pease, Neal.
Rome’s most faithful daughter : the Catholic Church and independent Poland, 1914–1939 / Neal Pease.
p. cm. — (Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8214-1855-0 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8214-1856-7 (paper : alk. paper)
1. Catholic Church—Foreign relations—Poland. 2. Poland—Foreign relations—Catholic Church. 3. Poland—Church history—20th century. 4. Catholic Church—Poland—History—20th century. 5. Catholic Church—Bishops—Poland—History—20th century. 6. Piłsudski, Józef, 1867–1935. 7. Church and state—Poland—History—20th century. 8. Secularism—Poland—History—20th century. 9. Poland—Politics and government, 1918–1945. I. Title.
BX1566.P39 2009
327.456'3404380904—dc22
2009019643
ISBN 978-0-8214-4362-0 (e-book)
Publication of books in the Polish and Polish-American Studies Series has been made possible in part by the generous support of the following organizations:
Polish American Historical Association,
New Britain, Connecticut
Stanislaus A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish and Polish American Studies,
Central Connecticut State University,
New Britain, Connecticut
The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Inc.,
New York, New York
The Piast Institute: An Institute for Polish
and Polish American Affairs,
Detroit, Michigan
For Ewa, Andrzej, Krystyna . . . and this time, Alex and Betsy.
Contents
1. Polonia Restituta: The Catholic Church and the Revival of Poland
2. Il Papa Polacco: The Making of Pius XI, 1918–1922
3. From Constitution to Concordat, 1921–1925
4. Papal Blessing: Church and State in the Piłsudski Era, 1926–1935
5. The Friends and Enemies of Catholic Poland
6. Vilna and Lwów: The Catholic Minorities of Eastern Poland
7. Poland, the Orthodox, and the Conversion of Russia