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3 Wroclaw Rev. L. Admin. & Econ. 1 (2013)

handle is hein.journals/wrorwolwa3 and id is 1 raw text is: DE DWroclawReview of Law, AdministrZ1 I &E1.1nomr~is THE INSTITUTIONAL CATHOLIC CHURCH IN POLAND ON EUROPEAN INTEGRATION LUKASZMACHAJ*, KLAUDYNA BIALAS-ZIELINSKA INTRODUCTION After the fall of the communist regime, and even before that, representatives of the institutional Catholic Church in Poland have followed the process of European integration, lasting since the mid-twentieth century, with careful attention. Generally speaking, the hierarchs have assumed that the very idea of integration is in line with the principles of Catholic social teaching when considering that regional cooperation between nations is one of the stages of improvement in social life and, at least partly, a natural historical process'. Before 1989, the bishops supported this idea (as much as it was possible in that time) because they were aware that contact with Western civilization could facilitate Poland's return to normality' after throwing off the shackles of communism2. However, immediately after the events of 1989, the issue of integration was not officially at the center of their interest. In the first half of the 1990s there were only a few general and equivocal references to this subject in some documents of the Polish Episcopal Conference (PEC)3, which makes it unfeasible to fully and precisely identify the position at that time of the Episcopate on European integration. The probable reason for this state of affairs was that Poland's accession to the EU seemed quite a remote prospect then. Besides, the institutional Church focused its attention at that time on matters involving domestic policy (for example, the new Constitution, the Concordat, abortion DOI: 10.2478/wrlae-2013-0001 * Assistant Professor; University of Wroclaw, Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics, Department of Political and Legal Thought; 1.macha iLprawo.uni.wroc.pl ** PhD candidate; University of Wroclaw, Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics, Department of Political and Legal Thought; k.bialas-zielinskakaprawo.uni.wroc.pl 1 Czeslaw Strzeszewski, Katolicka nauka spoleczna (Wydawnictwo KUL 1994) 544, 556. 2 Andrzej Podraza, 'Kosci6l wobec proces6w integracji Polski z Uni4 Europejsk4' in Piotr Dobrowolski and Mieczyslaw Stolarczyk (eds), Proces integracji Polski z Uniq Europejskq (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Slaskiego 2001) 539. 3 'List Biskup6w Polskich na Niedziele Swietej Rodziny' (1990) 12 L'Osservatore Romano 23; 'Slowo biskup6w diecezjalnych do wiemych w Polsce' (1991) 1-2 L'Osservatore Romano 57; 'List Episkopatu Polski o roli Katolik6w w procesie przeksztalcen polskiego rolnictwa i przeobrazen spolecznych wsi i malych miast' (1995) 2 Spoleczenstwo 363-368; 'Droga w trzecie tysiqclecie. Wsp6lne slowo polskich i niemieckich Biskup6w z okazji 30. rocznicy wymiany list6w (1965-1995)' (1995) 52-53 Tygodnik Powszechny 9. 1

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