Published: 2025-12-30

The case of the murder of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko in the narrative of „Trybuna Ludu”

Dominika Rafalska
Kultura Media Teologia
Section: Varia
https://doi.org/10.21697/kmt.2025.64.17

Abstract

The article analyses press publications in ‘Trybuna Ludu’ concerning the abduction, death and funeral of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko and the Toruń trial in which his killers were sentenced. The newspaper presented this narrative in a multifaceted way, including by publishing the content of official statements by the authorities and quoting (without comment) reports from press conferences given by government spokesman Jerzy Urban. The third and, in my opinion, most important means of communication were news and commentary. The article analyses these statements in an attempt to answer the question of how the party newspaper sought to turn the cruel murder of a clergyman into an element of ‘political struggle aimed at weakening the system’.

Keywords:

Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, Security Service, ‘Trybuna Ludu’, political assassination, propaganda

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Rafalska, Dominika. “The Case of the Murder of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko in the Narrative of „Trybuna Ludu””. Kultura Media Teologia, vol. 4, no. 64, Dec. 2025, pp. 286–298, doi:10.21697/kmt.2025.64.17.

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