THE WAY TO THE LEGAL REGULATION OF THE LEGAL STATUS OF CATHOLIC CHURCH IN POLISH PEOPLE REPUBLIC

Abstract

The road to statutory regulation of legal personality of the Catholic Church in Poland "of the people" was extremely tortuous and had its turbulent history. In my analysis, I present how it came to pass the so-called "May's laws" and type this process in the whole relation between state – church, in the decade of eighties of the twentieth century.

As I prove in my analysis, the way of conducting the work on the statutory regulation of the legal personality of the Catholic Church depended directly on the condition of the mutual relations and especially of the current, in a given period of time, concept of the religious policy of authorities, which in the last decade of the existance of the PRL had variable and dual character.