The question of the day is, do you think Poland could've stayed Catholic? I know there are a few minority Catholic populations but they're pretty hard core Lutheran/Protestant. How would that affect their relationship with Germany and the rest of Europe?
Perhaps if the Catholic Church in Poland wasn't so thoroughly persecuted by the USSR, it could survive, though the wave of evangelicals descending on Poland after the Iron Curtain fell was pretty impressive. Honestly, it was astonishing how fast Poland went from being an atheist state into one of the most fervent evangelical nations out there.
Oh, wait, you meant a PoD before 1900... Well, maybe if during the occupation of Rome, the Pope moved his residence to Poland, Catholicism might have a larger following there? I know there was one Polish noble who could have become Pope back in the day, and Poland's reputation as a confluence of religions might protect the Pope from the worst of anti-Catholic sentiment.
OOC: What, just what?Perhaps if the Catholic Church in Poland wasn't so thoroughly persecuted by the USSR, it could survive, though the wave of evangelicals descending on Poland after the Iron Curtain fell was pretty impressive. Honestly, it was astonishing how fast Poland went from being an atheist state into one of the most fervent evangelical nations out there.
Oh, wait, you meant a PoD before 1900... Well, maybe if during the occupation of Rome, the Pope moved his residence to Poland, Catholicism might have a larger following there? I know there was one Polish noble who could have become Pope back in the day, and Poland's reputation as a confluence of religions might protect the Pope from the worst of anti-Catholic sentiment.
When the Protestant Union in Bohemia under Friedrich and his General Christian von Anhalt defeated the Catholic league the fate of the Catholic Habsburgs were sealed. As most of the HAbsburgs lands leaned to the Protestant side it was only Logical they pleaded to Firedrich to become their new sovereign.
Maybe if the League had won the battle of the White Mountain Bohemia and the rest of the HAbsburgs German stay catholic the Reformation would NOT spread to Poland.
Poland? Solidly Catholic?
Ha!
Not calling this ASB, as I'm sure it's possible, somehow, maybe.
But... Poland? The land with 8 million Jews? The homeland of Socinianism? the hotbed of religious liberalism?
Hard to see.
Poland? Solidly Catholic?
Ha!
Not calling this ASB, as I'm sure it's possible, somehow, maybe.
But... Poland? The land with 8 million Jews? The homeland of Socinianism? the hotbed of religious liberalism?
Hard to see.