So war. On the one hand, the Minister of National Education, who would like to limit the number of religion lessons in schools from September 1, 2025 – from two to one per week, and on the other, the authorities of the Catholic Church, for whom this is an idea from hell. Minister Barbara Nowacka accuses the bishops of lying and, in retaliation, encourages the First President of the Supreme Court to appeal Nowacka’s plans to the Constitutional Court (yes, Julia Przyłębska’s).
GThe rumblings of this storm have been heard for a year. During the election campaign, the left tried to ban religion completely in schools. Of course, this is unrealistic without changing the concordat, but the election campaign is a time when emotions prevail over legal realities. When the coalition signed the cooperation agreement on October 15, it included a point on education, but there are no hard announcements about limiting religious education, although something can be read between the lines: “We will reduce and change the basic curriculum so that schools teach future skills related to the development of new technologies, the ability to think synthetically and to cooperate in groups. From this perspective, religion does not seem to be an essential subject.
Already on December 13, the newly appointed head of the Ministry of National Education announced on TVN24: “Two hours of religious lessons are too much. Therefore, my proposal will be to limit religious lessons to one hour paid for by the state budget. If the local government or parents decide that they would like more hours, it will be their decision. “The decision is theirs, including the financial one.” The regulation announced by Nowacka in July goes in this direction.
