France in the interwar period was an ally of Poland, and its then sociopolitical situation and concerning state-church relations attracted the attention of publicists, including Catholic ones, in Poland. Although the Catholic press of the Second Republic often referred to the still somewhat progressive secularization and religious crisis of France, it also drew attention to certain elements of the renewal of Catholic life in that country. Catholicism permeated social life, including professional life, in which Polish emigration played no small role. This was a phenomenon parallel in its own way to the de-Christianization processes that had been taking place for a long time in the country on the Loire.
