Published: 2021-09-25

Termin „duchowny” z polskiego Kodeksu postępowania karnego dla Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego

Tomasz Jakubiak
Zeszyty Prawnicze
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2021.21.3.13

Abstract

In Article 178 point 2 of the Polish Code of Criminal Procedure, the legislator recognises the clergy – penitent privilege and has provided that “a minister of religion may not be examined in the capacity of witness on information communicated to him during the a penitent’s confession.” Since this provision employs general terms (i.e. such as are common to many Churches and religious associations) which have not been defned in the Code of Criminal Procedure, including, for instance, the term “minister,” interpretative difficulties often occur with the implementation of the clergy – penitent privilege.

Hence my main aim in this paper was to identify the referents of the term “minister” in Article 178 Section 2 of the Code as applicable to the Roman Catholic Church. To do this, I offer a discussion both of the internal and external criteria for the term “minister,” which turns out to be an indispensable step allowing me to go on to the description of the personal scope of these provisions.

Keywords:

article 178 point 2 CCP; the clergy – penitent privilege; minister of religion; the Sacrament of Confession; the Roman Catholic Church.

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Jakubiak, T. (2021). Termin „duchowny” z polskiego Kodeksu postępowania karnego dla Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego. Zeszyty Prawnicze, 21(3), 337–359. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2021.21.3.13

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