Catholic University of Lublin continues to surprise. Serious departures of erstwhile Rectors of the Department of Ethics, resignation from the strictly Catholic character of Collegium Medicum, doctorate honoris causa for Chantal Delsol... And that's not all. Recently, prof. Zbigniew Izdebski, coordinator of the squad developing the alleged Barbara Nowacka wellness education, besides appeared at the university in a prominent role. What precisely happens in Lublin?
On 14 November, the Rector of KUL Fr.Prof. Mirosław Kalinowski was awarded the Prize of Fr. The award is awarded by the Management Board of the technological Society of KUL. It wouldn't be amazing if the individual who gave the laudation were chosen. It was prof. Zbigniew Izdebski, a sexologist and educator, a man associated with many global organizations promoting a non-Catholic imagination of sexuality – and at the same time a squad coordinator for a fresh subject in the Polish school, that is, wellness education.
On 22 November that year, the Polish Episcopal Conference issued an authoritative position on the subject of wellness education. This position clearly states that the fresh object is contrary to the Polish constitution and besides contains depraved elements. Polish Catholics have been protesting against the same subject substance for weeks; on 1 December a large demonstration took place in the Castle Square in Warsaw. Experts from respective countries, Germany, Austria, large Britain and Croatia, respected the dangers of permissive sexual education – and this is part of the alleged wellness education. The non-Catholic character of this subject is evident to anyone who reads Barbara Nowacka's proposal. Showing sexuality in isolation from marriage, hedonism, normalization of genderism, contraception, and possibly even abortion... No wonder the bishops powerfully criticized the subject.
But why did the squad coordinator who developed the wellness education program give the Rector a laudation at KUL? 1 might say that on 14 November there was not yet an authoritative position of the KEP on this issue. It is true; but the subject itself has been mentioned for a long time – its content has been subject to harsh and detailed criticism in many media.
Moreover, prof. Zbigniew Izdebski is not an anonymous character. An extended dossier on it was late prepared by the Pro-Right Foundation for Life.
The material says that Izdebski is simply a co-worker of the WHO – an organization that developed permissive sexual education standards which he tried to implement in Warsaw not long ago. The same student besides collaborates with the Kinsey Institute – a investigation unit founded by an American investigator who utilized repeatedly criticized methodology and utilized information provided by active pedophiles. Izdebski was besides decorated by the German Society for Social and technological investigation on Sexuality (DGSS). 1 of the presidents of this organization was Helmut Kentler, a scientist and sexologist who promoted the “experiment” of the transfer of children taken from families by Jugendamta to pedophiles. Kentler knew it would affect rape, but he thought it might have a good educational effect.
In a circumstantial planet of sexology, most likely fewer scientists can avoid specified or another links with compromised institutions, due to the fact that this discipline is mostly based on activities of highly murmured entities. Zbigniew Izdebski may personally have completely different views on many matters than Kinsey or Kentler. Although he was a student and co-worker of Andrzej Jaczewski, a man who, as reminded by the Pro-Right Foundation for Life, underestimated the photographing of bare children, postulated the impunity of voluntary sexual relations with children from the age of 9 and argued that pedophiles could be good educators (later cut off); Izdebski himself is known for his strong criticism of pedophilia. Either way, his environmental connections are, by all means, controversial; while his views on sexual education are simply openly non-Catholic. Therefore, entrusting the Izdebsky mission with the laudation of the Rector of the Catholic University of Lublin is highly surprising.
Or better yet, it would have been if it hadn't been for earlier KUL scandals.
Let's remember. On September 1, 2024, Collegium Medicum began operating on KUL. He has 2 proctors: cardiologist Prof. Maciej Banach and cardiothoracic surgeon Prof. Michał Zembala. Before the work started, Banach and Zembala spoke about their plans in a conversation with the wellness marketplace portal. Zembala argued that the Collegium Medicum at KUL must “show the achievements, cognition and experience of modern medicine in specified areas that can be hard for the Church” and mentioned explicitly “reproductive support, in vitro, persistent therapy”. Banach declared in turn that the unit would teach “fact-based medicine” and Collegium Medicum “in no way can and will be different from others” due to the fact that – as both have already declared – it is essential to teach medicine “no substance what the planet view is”.
In October of that year, prof. Chantal Delsol, author of the celebrated book “The End of the Christian World”, received her doctorate honoris causa KUL. Its core content is the request to abandon the counter-revolutionary conflict for Christian civilization and to accept the dominance of liberalism.
In fresh years, scandals have besides been caused by 2 erstwhile chairmen of the Chair of Ethics of KUL, priests professors Andrzej Szostek and Alfred Wierzbicki. In 2020, they signed the infamous “Appel of Common Priests” which expressed support for protests after the Constitutional Court's ruling on the killing of sick unborn children. Despite criticism, both defended their negative attitude towards the TK's judgment. In this context, 1 cannot aid but ask what ethics they have taught their students over the years: Catholic or alternatively liberal...
To leave no doubt: there are quite a few full Catholic scholars in the university who make all effort to educate students according to the teaching of the Church. However, you cannot close your eyes to increasing problems. Taking them all into account, it is hard to have a different reaction than to express serious concern about the further course of the Catholic University of Lublin. The accumulation of facts does not let us to talk about incidents; rather, it is about the structural penetration of the university by reasoning abroad to the Catholic spirit. We can hope that Polish bishops will not be idle and will benefit from their supervisory powers by redirecting the KUL to the right track.
Paweł Chmielewski
