Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II) - Love and Responsibility

Karol Wojtya

Translation, Endnotes, and Foreword
by Grzegorz Ignatik

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005.
[Milosc i odpowiedzialnosc. English]
Love and responsibility / Karol Wojtyla; translation and foreword by Grzegorz
Ignatik.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8198-4558-0
ISBN-10: 0-8198-4558-2
1. Sex--Religious aspects--Catholic Church. 2. Sexual ethics. 3. Catholic Church-
Doctrines. I. Title.
BT708.J6313 2013
241.66--dc23
2012042267

Scripture references and other quotations are translated from Karol Wojtyas (Pope John Paul IIs) own wording of the text as he wrote in Polish.

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Originally published in Polish as Mio i odpowiedzialno by Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, Lublin, copyright 2001. First published by Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, Lublin, copyright 1960.

Commentary and translators notes copyright 2013, Grzegorz Ignatik

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To my wife, Christine
G. I.

CHAPTER I
The Person and the Drive

CHAPTER II
The Person and Love

CHAPTER III
The Person and Chastity

CHAPTER IV
Justice with Respect to the Creator

CHAPTER V
Sexology and Ethics: A Supplementary View

APPENDIX
On the Meaning of Spousal Love

The main goal of this new English translation of Bishop Karol Wojtyas masterpiece Love and Responsibility is to allow the English reader to enter into the thought of Wojtya in a more profound way so as to encounter the reality he examined, the reality of the human person in the order of love. Being created in and for love, man in his freedom is unintelligible without love. Wojtya himself wished that this encounter might bring the fruit of transformation and cultivation of the reader (see especially his introduction to the second Polish edition). At the same time, however, this encounter is a meeting with Karol Wojtya, a loving man or rather a loving father who shares with his children the truth and beauty of the human person and of human nature.

This translation achieves its goal, or at least attempts to do so, by meticulous attention to the original Polish text, which is rendered into English faithfully and clearly. What made this possible is not only that I am a native speaker of Polish but also that most of my higher education has taken place in the United States after emigrating from Poland. In addition, the task of translating Love and Responsibility demanded from me a familiarity with other writings of Karol Wojtya. This includes the knowledge of philosophical and theological presuppositions and contexts contributing to his thought expressed in this book, and of the philosophical method he used. Due to the philosophical nature of the

The first English publication of then-Cardinal Wojtyas article On the Meaning of Spousal Love accompanies this translation (pp. 273ff.). Although published in 1974, some years after the first Polish publication of Love and Responsibility in 1960, the article is a fruit of Wojtyas renewed reflection on certain themes presented in the book. This reflection was prompted by a discussion concerning the problems of conjugal morality (see my opening note to the article). That is why this article belongs to the book in an organic way.

Lastly, the Polish edition used as a basis for this translation is the Lublin 2001 publication of the book by Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL. However, in some instances I referred to the second Polish edition of Love and Responsibility from 1962, which was published in Krakw by Spoeczny Instytut Wydawniczy Znak, and which carried the imprimatur of Archbishop Eugeniusz Kuczkowski. Although my translation is not meant to be a critical edition of the book, in the notes I indicate several noteworthy differences between the 1962 and 2001 editions. There is no doubt that Wojtya himself introduced the changes. Besides simple deletions from the 1962 edition, the most recent edition contains rewritten or added paragraphs (especially in ) that bear the full weight of Wojtyas thought, method, and style. Without stipulating the reasons why he made the changes, I have included the deleted material in my notes because it contributes significantly to a more integral grasp of his intention and word, hence to a deeper encounter with the human person and his love.

I wish to express my sincere thanks to several people for assisting with this translation project. First, I would like to thank Fr. Josef Spindelbck for offering me his always enthusiastic encouragement, his German translation of Love and Responsibility, and his valuable comments concerning my notes and translation. I am particularly grateful to Dr. David L. Schindler for reviewing and discussing my notes with me. I consider his sound advice invaluable. Furthermore, I wish to thank Sr. Marianne Lorraine Trouv from the Daughters of St. Paul for her editing help, which contributed greatly to the legibility of this translation. My gratitude is also extended to Sr. Bonita Sajng from the Congregation of the Sister Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, and to my brother, Adam Ignatik, for procuring the indispensable and needed versions of Polish texts used for this project. Finally, I am indebted to Ellen Roderick and Fr. Pietro Rossotti for their translation of the French and Italian quotations respectively.

GRZEGORZ IGNATIK

Reynoldsburg, Ohio
June 12, 2012

This book, which presently finds its way to the hands of the reader, has its history. It appeared for the first time twenty years ago. At the present rate of literary and publishing production this signifies a long period, even for the field of philosophy where works age more slowly. Yet, this book also has a long prehistory. This prehistory was written by the experience of many people, which in a way was becoming the experience of the author himself as their pastor and friend co-experiencing (wspprzeywa) their most intimate matters. This experience converged with and in a sense met his own intuition regarding these matters. It provoked reflections and considerations which, over time, gave rise to a need to bear testimony to them. At first, this testimony found its expression in the form of lectures given in 19581959 at the Catholic University of Lublin. Then it finally assumed the form of the book Love and Responsibility, published in Lublin by TN KUL (the Academic Society of the Catholic University of Lublin) in 1960.