Obowiązkowe praktyki religijne licealistów w Kaliszu i studentów w Poznaniu
Obligatory Religious Practices of Secondary-School Students from Kalisz and of University Students from Poznań

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the declarations of secondary-school and university students concerning their participation in obligatory – from the point of view of the Catholic Church – religious practices (Sunday Masses, Easter Confession and Communion). The analysis is based on the sociological research conducted in 2011 by the author of the article on 456 secondary-school students from Kalisz and 426 university students from Poznań who were asked to fill up a questionnaire. According to the results the majority of the respondents in both categories had participated in Sunday Masses (72.5%): of whom 42.2% regularly and 30.3% irregularly; 23.8% had not participated in the Mass, 42.8% had not participated in the Confession and 54.1% – in the Easter Communion, either, whereas over two fifths had failed to participate in both events (45.7% and 41.4%). Religiousness and religious indifference have a decisive impact on the participation in the religious practices described above. The respondents who are deeply religious participate regularly, and the ones who are religiously indifferent fail to do it. In comparison to the previous research the percentage of students who have stopped participating in the obligatory religious practices has increased by 17.6%.

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