Postawy młodzieży wobec Kościoła jako wyzwanie dla katechezy
Young People’s Attitudes Towards the Church as a Challenge for Catechesis

Summary/Abstract: A structural definition of an attitude contains the following components: a cognitive, an emotional-evaluating and a behavioral one. The study of attitudes towards the Church is contained within the institutional parameter of religiosity. Young people understand the Church more in the categories of a community than of an institution; however, in recent years the percentage has been growing of respondents who think that it is possible to be a religious man without the Church understood a God’s people. This may be a sign of formation of individualized religiosity dissociating itself from the institutional requirements (extraChurch religiosity). Studied young men evaluate as positive the Church’s contribution to solving the problems of the individual, the family, the nation, and its role in the systemic transformations. However, they are afraid of too much of its intervention in their personal lives and behaviors. This is why in the hierarchy of authorities that are helpful in solving moral conflicts the teachings of the Church and the clergy’s counseling are in remote positions, and one’s conscience is ranked as the first. Considerable trust in the Church in the general meaning is accompanied by a lower level of trust in actual structures and persons in the Church. A considerable shortage of participation in religious movements and communities may be noticed.

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