Influenced by Emmanuel Mounier, Jack Coates left the League in 1945, founding the London Personalist League.
According to the analysis by Jarosław Gowin, presented in his book, Church in the Times of Freedom (Kościół w czasach wolności), Tygodnik Powszechny is one of the main representatives of ‘open’ Catholicism, inspired by Catholic personalism.
Sternhell's identification of Spiritualism with Fascism has also given rise to debate, in particular his claim that Emmanuel Mounier's personalism movement "shared ideas and political reflexes with Fascism".