Podstawy prawne prawa do nauczania religii w Polsce

Abstract

This article discusses the legal status of religious education in Poland from 1990 to the adoption of the Constitution in 1997. Subsequently, all the important legislative acts concerning this question have been presented and are in effect to this day The present provisions and regulations, based on the Constitution and existing international standards, assure the right to freedom of religion. These are the foundation for the right to teach religion in both Catholic and public schools. These provisions constitute a set of legal guarantees for protecting the fundamental rights and freedoms characteristic of democratic rule-of-law. The basis for Poland’s right to religious education granted by the Polish legislature within the Polish Constitution is further supported by the Concordat, an international treaty, and by other legal acts and provisions having the power of law. It can be said with certainty that the regularly recurring controversies regarding the right to teach religion in public schools are a manifestation of a different world view. But what can also be said with certainty is that the legal basis for the right to teach religion is enduringly and unequivocally established in Polish law.