Katechizacja w Polsce w okresie przemian społeczno-politycznych (1990-1997). Wybrane aspekty

Abstract

The paper discusses some aspects of catechization in Poland in the years 1990-1997. The issue of bringing catechesis back to school has undoubtedly become one of the most important pastoral tasks in the post-war history of the Church in Poland. The socio-political circumstances have changed, allowing religion classes to become anew an integral part of school educational curriculum. Such a decision has brought forth a wave of polemical opinions in a post-communist society, especially in some milieus. The paper shows what social reactions accompanied those events. Moreover, it depicts what young people from grades eight and from final grades of secondary schools think about school catechesis, its pluses and minuses, how they evaluate their catechist, what they would like to change to improve the standard of their religious instruction. The final part of the paper includes factors which facilitate or make it difficult to carry out the catechetical process in Polish school.