Dominika Gala grew up going to Mass with her grandmother and attending Catholic school in Warsaw. After her grandmother's death in 2010, she began to drift away from the church.A decade later, when the Catholic leadership backed a neartotal abortion ban in Poland, Gala made...
CZESTOCHOWA, Poland — Dominika Gala grew up going to Mass with her grandmother and attending Catholic school in Warsaw. After her grandmother’s death in 2010, she began to drift away from the church.
As Law and Justice seeks an unprecedented third-straight term in the Oct. 15 parliamentary election, the conservative, nationalist ruling party is trying to bolster its image as a defender of Christian values and traditional morality. Yet many Poles are questioning their relationship with the Catholic Church, and some cite its closeness to the government as a key reason.
About 70% of Poles included in the 2021 census identified as Catholic, down from 87% a decade earlier, according to data released last month by Poland’s Central Statistical Office. Other recent studies say younger generations in particular are turning away from religion. That news has reverberated in the historic cathedral city of Czestochowa, an hour’s drive north from Dabrowa Gornicza. It is home to a revered monastery and a famed Virgin Mary image which draw more than 1 million pilgrims annually.
The party faced criticism after its powerful leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, slammed the political opposition in a bitter speech at Jasna Gora in July. Kaczynski, during a pilgrimage organized by an ultraconservative radio station, accused them of trying to “destroy the Polish nation.” Since Poland’s transition from Communism to democracy in 1989, successive governments have offered the church state subsidies, tax breaks and a privileged status in the country’s cultural life. Yet on a local level, a quiet rebellion has been brewing in Czestochowa.
Several Poles who formally left the church told the AP that what they considered “hypocrisy” and closeness to the government were factors in their decision. As he left home, he began questioning the faith, eventually became an atheist and ultimately quit the church because of his growing distrust of the institution.
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