Poland sees decline in public trust of Church

Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

Some 74 per cent of Poles think that religion is not always the source of morality and people should follow their own conscience first.

The results of a poll by the Warsaw-based CBOS polling agency reveal a significant decline of public trust regarding religion in Poland.

The poll showed a significant increase in Poles who think there is no direct link between religion and morality – a jump from 33 per cent in 2009 to 41 cent now – and a decrease in the number of people who believe that religion is the only source of morality – from 24 per cent in 2009 to 16 per cent now.

The reason that people were trusting their own consciences above what the Church taught was because “the moral teaching of the Catholic Church seems to be paralysing the individual’s choices”, said Tadeusz Bartos, professor of philosophy at the Humanistic Academy in Pultusk.

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