Ocena regulacji w prawie Kościoła katolickiego dotyczących profilaktyki społecznej w kontekście prawa polskiego

Abstract

These days one can observe a huge interest in social prevention in Poland. Many institutions and or-gans of Polish state authorities and of the local state authorities are engaged in the activity in question. The Church, of course, due to the fact that it is a visible association and a spiritual community, which goes forward togeth-er with humanity and experiences the same earthly lot which the world does (GS 40), has a moral obligation to strive for the good of the whole society, not only for the good of the faithful. The paper aims to investigate whether the Catholic Church legislation contains any rules about the matter of social prevention. Both, universal church law and particular church law are analyzed. The main conclusion is that the church legislative bodies do not use thorough-ly the possibilities given by Polish state law to involve the Church, which is still an important element of social life in Po-land, in the social prevention actions. Changing the situation would be of help to fulfill the missions of the Church and would contribute to strengthening of the Church’s position in Poland.