Niektóre działania władz Polski Ludowej przeciwko szpitalom zakonnym w latach 1949-1958

In all analyzed cases emphasis is laid on the instrumental treatment of the law by Polish Communist authorities. They made and interpreted legal acts according to self-assumed goals, therefore the law was perceived as an ‘extremely efficient instrument of policymaking’. Confessional policy of the State was characterized by pursuance of possibly quick secularization of society by methodological limitation of the Catholic Church’s law (as well as other confessional associations) in fulfilling its mission in society. The justification of such a policy was based on that the Communists keenly realized the doctrine of separation of the Church from State, and, what is more, an atheistic ideology according to which confessional associations were treated as competitors on the political and ideological ground.