Abstract
From the very beginning of Polish statehood in 1918, conflicts sparked between the civilauthorities and the Episcopate of Poland. In a natural way, they projected downwards to townsand villages, antagonizing and dividing the Polish society. Many publications dating to just afterWorld War 2 one-sidedly assigned blame to the Catholic Church. The present paper shows suchaccusations to be wrongful and blatantly untrue. The choice of the parish is not random – it washere that the most renowned conflict around teaching religion in the Łomża diocese took place.Father Witold Balukiewicz’s endeavors to build a modern school and teach religion in the full scopeguaranteed by the law and the Father’s later social engagement. In light of the facts and with thebenefit of hindsight, it is not difficult to determine who was right.
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