Editing Poland (section)

=== Religion ===
{{Main|Religion in Poland}}
[[File:Pope John Paul II in Kraków – 1983.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Pope John Paul II|John Paul II]], born Karol Wojtyła, held the papacy between 1978 and 2005 and was the first [[Polish people|Pole]] to become a [[Roman Catholic]] Pope.]]

According to the 2021 census, 71.3% of all Polish citizens adhere to the [[Roman Catholic Church in Poland|Roman Catholic Church]], with 6.9% identifying as having no religion and 20.6% refusing to answer.<ref name="Census 2021" />

Poland is one of the [[Religion in Europe|most religious countries in Europe]], where Roman Catholicism remains a part of national identity and Polish-born [[Pope John Paul II]] is widely revered.<ref name="Rocca 2022">{{Cite news |last1=Rocca |first1=Francis X. |last2=Ojewska |first2=Natalia |date=19 February 2022 |title=In Traditionally Catholic Poland, the Young Are Leaving the Church |language=en-US |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-old-school-catholic-poland-youth-are-leaving-the-church-11645263383 |access-date=23 October 2023 |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=14 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231014092223/https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-old-school-catholic-poland-youth-are-leaving-the-church-11645263383 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Graf Strachwitz |first=Rupert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ykj2DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22poland%2Bone%2Bof%2Bmost%2Breligious%2BCatholic%2Bnational%2Bidentity%22&pg=PT184 |title=Religious communities and civil society in Europe |date=2020 |publisher=De Gruyter Oldenburg |isbn=978-3-11-067299-2 |volume=II |location=Berlin |page=177 |access-date=24 July 2023 |archive-date=2 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002180456/https://books.google.com/books?id=ykj2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT184&dq=%22poland+one+of+most+religious+Catholic+national+identity%22 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2015, 61.6% of respondents outlined that religion is of high or very high importance.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=Infographic – Religiousness of Polish inhabitants |url=https://stat.gov.pl/en/infographics-and-widgets/infographics/infographic-religiousness-of-polish-inhabitiants,4,1.html |access-date=13 March 2022 |publisher=Statistics Poland (Główny Urząd Statystyczny) |archive-date=9 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170309160430/https://stat.gov.pl/en/infographics-and-widgets/infographics/infographic-religiousness-of-polish-inhabitiants,4,1.html |url-status=live }}</ref> However, church attendance has greatly decreased in recent years; only 28% of Catholics attended [[Mass (liturgy)|mass]] weekly in 2021, down from around half in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Coppen |first=Luke |date=18 January 2023 |title=How steep is Poland's drop in Mass attendance? |url=https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/how-steep-is-polands-drop-in-mass-attendance |access-date=23 October 2023 |website=[[The Pillar]] |language=en |archive-date=18 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018193907/https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/how-steep-is-polands-drop-in-mass-attendance |url-status=live }}</ref> According to ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', "Of [the] more than 100 countries studied by the ''[[Pew Research Center]]'' in 2018, Poland was [[Secularization|secularising]] the fastest, as measured by the disparity between the religiosity of young people and their elders."<ref name="Rocca 2022" />

Freedom of religion in Poland is guaranteed by the Constitution, and Poland's [[concordat]] with the [[Holy See]] enables the teaching of religion in public schools.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ramet |first1=Sabrina P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hopjDQAAQBAJ&dq=%22religion%2Bin%2Bschool%2Bpoland%2Bconstitution%22&pg=PA147 |title=Religion, Politics, and Values in Poland: Continuity and Change Since 1989 |last2=Borowik |first2=Irena |date=26 October 2016 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-137-43751-8 |location=New York |page=147 |access-date=24 July 2023 |archive-date=2 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002180448/https://books.google.com/books?id=hopjDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA147&dq=%22religion+in+school+poland+constitution%22 |url-status=live }}</ref> Historically, the Polish state maintained a high degree of [[Warsaw Confederation|religious tolerance]] and provided asylum for refugees fleeing religious persecution in other parts of Europe.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Laursen |first1=John Christian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AnYSxFMq48gC&dq=%22poland%2Bsafe%2Bhaven%2Breligious%2Bpersecution%2Brefugees%22&pg=PA103 |title=Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment |last2=Nederman |first2=Cary J. |date=2011 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-0-8122-1567-0 |location=Philadelphia |page=103 |access-date=24 July 2023 |archive-date=2 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002180450/https://books.google.com/books?id=AnYSxFMq48gC&pg=PA103&dq=%22poland+safe+haven+religious+persecution+refugees%22 |url-status=live }}</ref> Poland hosted Europe's largest [[History of the Jews in Poland|Jewish diaspora]], and the country was a centre of [[Ashkenazi Jewish]] culture and traditional learning until the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Marcus |first=Joseph |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oEfDKjjX5AEC&dq=%22Poland%2Bcentre%2Bof%2Bjewish%2Bculture%22&pg=PR7 |title=Social and Political History of the Jews in Poland 1919–1939 |date=2011 |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |isbn=978-3-11-083868-8 |location=Boston |page=7 |access-date=24 July 2023 |archive-date=2 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002180503/https://books.google.com/books?id=oEfDKjjX5AEC&pg=PR7&dq=%22Poland+centre+of+jewish+culture%22 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Contemporary religious minorities include [[Polish Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christians]], [[Protestantism|Protestants]], including [[Lutheranism|Lutherans]] of the [[Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland|Evangelical-Augsburg Church]], [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostals]] in the [[Pentecostal Church in Poland]], [[Adventists]] in the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]], and other smaller [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical]] denominations, including [[Jehovah's Witnesses]], [[Eastern Catholic Churches|Eastern Catholics]], [[Mariavite Church|Mariavites]], [[History of the Jews in Poland|Jews]], [[Islam in Poland|Muslims]] ([[Tatars]]), and [[Modern Paganism|neopagans]], some of whom are members of the [[Native Polish Church]].<ref name="Central Statistical Office 2008" />