System obligatoryjnego nauczania religii katolickiej w Niemczech, Austrii i Portugalii

The subject of this article is an attempt to analyse the mandatory forms of teaching religion in public schools, guaranteed by the concordat agreements with the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and Portugal. Analysed concordats set particular standards for the presence of religion in the context of school education and determine the powers of church and state authorities, including the way of teaching, teachers’ qualifications and the position of religion teacher and pedagogical supervision over them.