Almanac of law. Issue 15 (2024), pages 351–357.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2024-15-351-357

Mima I. V.
Interaction of religious norms of catholicism and legal regulation of social relations (on the example of Poland)

The article examines the level of interaction between Catholic religious norms and legal regulation of social relations in increasing the effectiveness of legal influence in regulating social life, consciousness and behavior of people. The author notes that the mechanism of legal regulation, as a system of legal means in connection with the religious norms of Catholicism, is designed to ensure the stability of social relations through the most optimal combination of individual, public and state interests of members of society in order to create conditions for the progressive development of each individual. The author notes that the effectiveness of legal influence is determined by the ability to quickly change, adapt and harmonize the system of means of the mechanism of legal regulation of social relations. In view of this, the author emphasizes that among the systemic traditional means of the mechanism of legal regulation, religious norms continue to hold an important place as regulators of the subject’s legal behavior. After all, the basis for the formation of social values is the moral and Christian laws of the development of society.

During the study, the point of view is proved that the historical constancy of the influence of religious norms on the regulation of social relations indicates the formation of a legal tradition of using Catholic religious norms as a means of the mechanism of legal regulation of social relations. Today, this influence persists in various spheres of social life in Poland. Giving the Roman Catholic religion a leading position in the state was the first fundamental difference between the position of the Catholic Church and other churches and denominations. Another difference was the recognition by the state that the Church is governed by its own laws. Gradually, Catholic religious norms as an internal structure of the mechanism of legal regulation of social relations in relation to legal norms, as a result of a close relationship, interaction, and in certain aspects and the intersection of Catholic religious norms with legal norms in the mechanism of legal regulation of social relations, ensure the effectiveness of legal influence on social life, consciousness and behavior of people. The author notes that in this case, legal regulation is the result of the action of objective factors that have a natural nature and evolutionary development and must meet the needs of society. In the law, universally recognized basic human principles, which can be based on religious principles, should find expression. The law should be the carrier of natural and legal requirements regarding the rights and freedoms of the individual. Also, religious norms are one of the most important socio-legal phenomena for a person, they influence the formation of culture, the legal system, but above all they emphasize the identity of a nation or ethnic group.

Key words: legal tradition, progress, religious norms, legal influence, legal regulation, catholicism.

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Iryna Volodymyrivna Mima,
Associate Professor of the Department of Law
of the Educational and Scientific Law Institute
of the State University of Economics and Technologies,
Candidate of Law, Associate Professor
ORCID:0000-0002-0062-3932