„Mysterium iniquitatis”: prześladowanie duchowieństwa katolickiego przez systemy totalitarne

This article turns our attention to the facts which can be researched empirically and at the same time it reminds us that we deal with the reality which cannot be only described by words. We deal here with the mystery of evil (mysterium iniquitatis), which must be understood in a deeper Christian perspective. Those facts are persecutions of clergy by totalitarian systems. Speaking about them, we must apply short presentations concerning two such regimes which are most meaningful for us, i.e. German Nazism and Soviet communism. Both of them developed in different spiritual and material cultures, but in their ideological assumptions and their implementations those systems turned out to be very similar. We have enough evidence to speak about them as of the persecutors of faith.