Patient’s right to pastoral care
Słowa kluczowe:
patient, patient’s rights, pastoral care, churches and religious associations, freedom of conscience and religionAbstrakt
The right of the patient to pastoral care is to attain freedom of conscience. And although it is a legal concept, that to date there is no specific scope of that law. Doubts also raises the catalog of entities that law should be respected. The article presents the most important issues related to the functioning of the patient’s right to pastoral care, attention was drawn to some shortcomings of the legal system while indicating those areas which require urgent changes.
Bibliografia
Report on the implementation of the tasks resulting from the Act of 6 November 2008 on patients’ rights and the commissioner for patients’ rights (Journal of Laws of 2009 No. 52, item 417, as amended) and the observance of patients’ rights in the territory of the Republic of Poland for the period from 21 May 2008 to 31 December 2009, dated 30 July 2010; www.orka.sejm.gov.pl.
Act of 13 May 1994 on the relationship between the State and the Evangelical Reformed Church in the Republic of Poland (Journal of Laws of 2015, item 483).
Act of 13 May 1994 on the relationship between the State and the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Republic of Poland (Journal of Laws of 2015, item 43).
Act of 17 May 1989 on the relationship between the State and the Catholic Church in the Republic of Poland (Journal of Laws of 2013, item 1169).
Act of 20 February 1997 on the relationship between the State and Jewish Religious Communities in Republic of Poland (Journal of Laws of 2014, item 1798)
Act of 20 February 1997 on the relationship between the State and the Mariavite Church in the Republic of Poland (Journal of Laws of 2015, item 44).
Act of 20 February 1997 on the relationship between the State and the Mariavite Old Catholic Church in the Republic of Poland (Journal of Laws of 2015, item 14).
Act of 20 February 1997 on the relationship between the State and the Pentecostal Church in the Republic of Poland (Journal of Laws of 2015, item 13).
Act of 30 June 1995 on the relationship between the State and the Seventh Day Adventist Church in the Republic of Poland (Journal of Laws of 2014, item 1889).
Act of 30 June 1995 on the relationship between the State and the Baptist Union of Poland in the Republic of Poland (Journal of Laws of 2015, item 169).
Act of 30 June 1995 on the relationship between the State and the Evangelical Methodist Church in the Republic of Poland (Journal of Laws of 2014, item 1712).
Act of 30 June 1995 on the relationship between the State and the Polish Catholic Church in the Republic of Poland (Journal of Laws of 2014, item 1599).
Act of 4 July 1991 on the relationship between the State and the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Journal of Laws of 2014, item 1726).
