Abstract

In Poland, the refugee crisis can be defined as the specter. Despite the vestigial number of refugees and relatively low number of immigrants, the problem causes enormous social repercussions. There is an extremely interesting tension between the social doctrine of the Catholic Church, its official documents dealing with refugees’ reception, and a very definite refusal of worshippers. Poland is one of the countries with the largest percentage of people declaring to be members of the Catholic Church in Europe. At the same time, Poland is one of the European countries that are the least willing to shelter war refugees. The tension is also visible at the institutional level. Conservative Polish government, calling to the Church’s social doctrine, refuses categorically to adopt the refugees