This is an important statement that can be an example for other people in power! As announced by Mayor Marcin Ratułowski, religious classes in educational institutions in the city municipality of Czarny Dunajec – following any changes introduced by the government of Donald Tusk – will be financed by the local government. “It is my duty to defend the faith and our children. I have such opportunities and I will do everything I can to ensure that the number of religious classes in our schools does not decrease,” the local government official added in his Facebook post.
“Catechesis normally takes place at school.
Mayor Marcin Ratułowski’s unyielding statement was made during the municipal celebration of National Education Day, which took place at the primary school. Kornel Makuszyński in Piekielnik.
We have this opportunity and we will seize it
– emphasized the local government official.
Central actions, whatever they may be, remember that the final say lies with the authority governing educational institutions. I can assure you with full responsibility that in the city and municipality of Czarny Dunajec, catechesis will normally take place at school.
– noted Marcin Ratułowski.
““Science goes hand in hand with religion.”
During the preceding Holy Mass. in Piekiełnik, priest Father Zygmunt Hopciaś emphasized:
The main task of the school is the pursuit of truth, and this truth is the Creator. After all, science goes hand in hand with religion.
““It is my duty to defend the faith and our children.”
Mayor Ratułowski also published a powerful post on Facebook opposing the attack on religion classes!
The fact that anyone can learn has always reminded me of freedom and enlightenment. I agree that some changes are needed in the education system. However, there are also aspects that are inviolable for me, as a Catholic, as a father. I am concerned about the desire to limit the number of religious classes for our children. I know how much they have to offer and how they shape a young person’s future and worldview. In my opinion, religion teaches us a value system that is moral and works perfectly in interpersonal relationships
– wrote the mayor of the city and municipality Czarny Dunajec.
(…) in my speech at primary school. Kornel Makuszyński in Piekielnik has made clear statements because it is my duty to defend the faith and our children. I have such opportunities and I will do everything I can to ensure that the number of religion classes in our schools does not decrease
– he emphasized.
As he noted, “the decision to include religion in school was made by the greatest heroes, people who gave us a free Poland, including John Paul II and many members of Solidarity.”
I appeal to everyone who takes the welfare of children and matters of faith to heart. We cannot allow our access to religion, and therefore to our heritage, to be limited. This is not what progress and development are about. Let us take responsibility for the future of the nation together
– appealed to Mayor Marcin Ratułowski.
President of the Polish Episcopate: “A valuable item”
Let us recall that the President of the Episcopal Conference, Metropolitan Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda of Gdańsk, emphasized in his last statement that students who do not want to participate in religion classes should participate in an ethics class at that time – participation in one of these classes. two lessons should be mandatory.
Religion should be treated as a valuable subject that we learn and that brings us a lot
– noted and emphasized that participation in religion classes builds in students “a sense of responsibility and patriotism”; they are “the key to learning about Polish culture and mentality.” The president of the Polish Bishops’ Conference stated that organizing religious classes only during the first or last hour of class is “physically impossible.”
The Ministry of National Education, led by left-wing KO politician Barbara Nowacka, is implementing a plan to attack school catechesis! The Ministry’s regulation (against which the Constitutional Court issued a protective decision, which was announced by the President of the Constitutional Court, Julia Przyłębska, on Telewizja wPolska at the end of August and which is shamefully ignored by the Ministry of National Education!) assumes a reduction in the number of religious lessons to one per week, and these lessons would also be given before or after compulsory educational activities. According to the Ministry of National Education, this project has been submitted for consultation.
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– Archbishop Wojda: Religious lessons are a full-fledged subject. Students who do not participate must take ethics classes
— The episcopate spoke to the government. There will be a joint subcommittee on religion in schools. ‘Will to continue dialogue’
— Happens before the Sejm. The Association of Secular Catechists wants a compromise: two mandatory religion or ethics classes
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