[2] The aim of the university was to be a modern place of higher education that would conduct research in the spirit of harmony between science and faith.

The university sought to produce a new Catholic intelligentsia that would play a leading role in Poland.

On 23 November 1939, the Nazis executed a number of academic workers, including, among others, professors Michał Niechaj and Czesław Martyniak.

Given that the Communist governments all insisted on having a total monopoly of control over educational institutions, the preservation of its independence was a great achievement.

[5] After the fall of Communism in Poland in 1989, the university has flourished, quadrupling its student population and greatly expanding its campus.

In 2011–12, the university's philosophy program was ranked first in Poland by the Polish Accreditation Agency, distinguished twice, receiving 9 million PLN total in grants that year as a result.