Nauczanie religii katolickiej w polskiej szkole publicznej w kontekście prawa rodziców do wychowania religijnego dzieci – aspekty historyczne...
The Teaching of Catholic Religion in Public School in the Context of the Parents Right to ensure their Children Religious Upbringing – Historical ...

Summary/Abstract: This article presents selected aspects of teaching religious education in public schools. The depiction of issues from the Catholic point of view does not by any means deprecate other religious denominations, but merely points to the complexity of the issues. The possibility of organising religious education classes within the framework of the system of education is one of the forms of parents’ exercising their right to bring up their children in line with their beliefs, which is confirmed by many Acts of international and domestic law. In Poland, after the period of Communist rule and fighting the Catholic Church and any manifestations of religiousness, and breaching basic human rights, including the right to a religious upbringing, the system reforms after 1989 brought about changes to legislation, which restored religious education to its place in public schools. Statutory and sub-statutory regulations were confirmed in Art. 53 sections 3 and 4 and in Art. 48 section 1 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of 2 April 1997. Based on the said regulations parents have the right to the religious and moral upbringing of their children, also through the ability to choose religious education at public school. The legal regulations pertaining to this matter have been repeatedly verified by the Constitutional Tribunal and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, and despite the necessity to particularise individual regulations, the fundamental direction of Polish legal solutions was maintained, which corroborates its conformity with the standards in other democratic countries.

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