Kontrowersje wokół polskiego konkordatu
Controversies about the Polish concordat

Summary/Abstract: This article concerns discussion over controversy which accompanied preparations to signing of such specific international agreement as concordat is, between Polish State and the Holy See. After the period of annexation the Polish State signed in 1925 with the Holy See agreement that lost its binding force after the communists seized power in Poland in 1945. The Provisional Government of National Unity referred then to infringement of one of the concordat’s regulations by The Holy See and terminated the agreement. Many times in following years communist authorities tried to enter into diplomatic relations with the Catholic Church on their own conditions but every time the talks ended in failure. After gaining the independence in 1989 the Polish State faced the need not only to write and enact new constitution but also a new agreement with the Holy See which should have empowerment in this new constitution. Government of Hanna Suchocka brought into effect the signing of new concordat with the Holy See exposing by this themselves to many charges of legal and constitutional nature.

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