Organization of the Sodality of Our Lady by Women Students of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (1906-1939)

The Sodality movement has been initiated in the 16th c. and it was around then that the first sodality organizations were created in Poland. The Sodality of Our Lady for Women Students and Female Participants of Higher Courses in Krakow was founded in 1906; it co-created the Krakow sodality movement in the interwar period together with the Sodality Movement of the Academicians at the Jagiellonian University, the Sodality Movement of the Academicians of the Academy of Mining and the Sodality Movement of the Students of the Higher Commercial College in Krakow. In 1925 the Sodality of Our Lady for Women Students and Female Participants of Higher Courses in Krakow became transformed into the Sodality of Our Lady for Women Academicians and when the ruling concerning academic associations was introduced in 1933, the organization had changed its name into: Sodality of Our Lady for Women Students of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. The latter organization had laid special emphasis on religious instruction and spiritual formation of its female members, which is a characteristic feature of all sodality movements. But apart from the activity which was focused on the spiritual sphere, the Sodality movement also provided assistance in the strictly material sphere both to sodality members and persons from outside the organization – among others, to children, those in need of material aid or the sick who were undergoing treatment in St. Lazarus or St. Ludwig Hospitals in Krakow

Uwagi na marginesie książki: Finansowanie Kościołów i innych związków wyznaniowych, pod red. Pawła Sobczyka i Krzysztofa Warchałowskiego, Oficyna Wydawnicza ASPRA-JR, Warszawa 2013, 478 s.

Notes on the book Financing Churches and Other Religious Organizations, edited by Paweł Sobczyk and Krzysztof Warchałowski, oficyna wydawnicza ASPRA-JR, Warsaw 2013, 478 p.Financing churches and other religious organizations is a socially significant issue, but it is especially important to religious entities and their members. That is why it is worth to mention a book Finansowanie Kościołów i innych związków wyznaniowych [Financing Churches and Other Religious Organizations], published in 2013 and edited by Paweł Sobczyk and Krzysztof Warchałowski, which is a monograph consisting of 28 articles by various authors. This substantial volume of 478 pages begins with an introduction and is divided into seven parts. At the end there is also an appendix and a summary in English. Part One of the book is devoted to general matters; Part Two concerns financing religious organizations from the historical perspective; Part Three deals with financing cultural and scientific activities of religious entities; Part Four presents selected aspects of financing the activities of religious entities; Part Five discusses tax and insurance questions; Part Six addresses the subject of  regulating the financial situation of churches and other religious organizations and Part Seven presents the principles of financing religious entities in selected countries. The appendix addresses the question of readiness on the part of both the State and religious entities to face a possible lack of social response to a plausible necessity of paying a church tax. The book is an important scholarly contribution to the question of financing religious entities in Poland, especially in the face of intended changes in the financial basis of religious entities in the Republic of Poland

IX Ogólnopolskie Sympozjum Prawa Wyznaniowego „Kościoły i inne związki wyznaniowe w służbie dobru wspólnemu”, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków 17–20 maja 2012 roku

The 9th National Symposium on Church-State Law “Churches and other religious organizations in the service of the common good,” Jagiellonian University, Krakow 17–20 May 2012 The host of the 9th National Symposium on Church-State Law combined with the Congress of Chairs and Lecturers on Church-State Law was the Department of Ecclesiastical Law and Law on Religious Denominations at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. The symposium was held in Krakow from 17th to 20th May 2012, and its theme was: “Churches and other religious organizations in the service of the common good.” The deliberations of the Symposium brought together over 50 participants from 15 academic centres in Poland and two professors from the University of Toulouse. Out of this group, over 30 participants presented their speeches. The opening session of the symposium took place on Friday, 18th May, 2012, in Aula Jagiellońska of the Collegium Maius of the Jagiellonian University. The opening speaker was prof. dr hab. Wacław Uruszczak, Head of the Department of Ecclesiastical Law and Law on Religious Denominations at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, the host of the symposium, who in his speech referred to Article 25 Paragraph 3 of the Polish Constitution of 1997, which provides for the principle of cooperation between the State and the Church for the sake of common good. Next, prof. dr hab. Dorota Malec, Vice Dean for Administrational Studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University, greeted the participants. The opening ceremony was concluded by President of the Polish Association of Church-State Law, prof. ChAT dr. hab. Tadeusz J. Zieliński. The first introductory session of the Symposium also took place in Aula Jagiellońska, while all the following sessions were held at the “Chopin” Hotel in Krakow, divided into sections concerning the following themes: “Churches and other religious organizations in the service of the family,” “Churches and other religious organizations in the service of the common good in the historical and international context – part I and II,” and “Churches and other religious organizations in the service of society, culture and education.” The concluding session of the Symposium took place in the afternoon on 19th May, 2012. It consisted of a single presentation by mec. Karol Tatar, a solicitor from Krakow and the Vice President of the Ars Legis Association of St. Ivo Helory, the Patron of Lawyers. At the same time, prof. dr hab. Wacław Uruszczak invited the participants to join the celebrations of the 9th Lawyers’ Day organized by the Ars Legis Association. After prof. Tatar’s presentation the host of the Symposium, prof. dr hab. Wacław Uruszczak thanked all the speakers and the audience for their  participation in the Symposium. At the end, ks. prof. KUL dr hab. Piotr Stanisz made a speech in which he summarized the Symposium and discussed by the participants