The Church Fund in Poland: its Controversial History and Present.Interest Mediation between State and Church in Post- Communist Space Cover Image

Církevní fond v Polsku a jeho kontroverzní historie a soucasnost. Príspevek k problémum ve zprostredkování zájmu ve vztahu státu a církve v postkomuni
The Church Fund in Poland: its Controversial History and Present.Interest Mediation between State and Church in Post- Communist Space

Author(s): Lubomír Kopeček, Marzena Cichosz
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the Church Fund in the context of Church finance in Poland. The introduction describes the close relationship between the Polish identity and Catholicism in modern Polish history and the specific position of the Catholic Church inside communist Poland. A further section analyzes the role of the Church Fund as one of the instruments of the Communist regime used against the Catholic Church. The final section explores the transformation of the Church Fund after 1989 and discusses its future.

  • Issue Year: IX/2007
  • Issue No: 2-3
  • Page Range: 151-161
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Czech