Abstract
The Czech Catholicism lies outside the mainstream Czech Studies' research in Poland, but taking up this topic significantly enhances knowledge of Polish-Czech relations. This article examines the image of Czech Catholicism in the selected Polish press of various backgrounds: the liberal daily 'Gazeta Wyborcza', the Catholic weeklys (conservative 'Gość Niedzielny', the more liberal 'Tygodnik Powszechny'), and associated with specific centres monthly magazines ('Znak', 'Więź', 'W Drodze').
The study covered a twenty-five-year period from 1990 to 2014, taking into account all the articles, reprints (?), interviews, and notes on any topic of the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic. Extensive source material has allowed to formulate of the most important thematic circles, that consist the image of Czech Catholicism - its traditions, its past, its present as its own identity, new challenges within the Church, and finally the person and the work of Fr.
Prof. Tomáš Halík.
The examined titles allow us to say that the problem of Czech Catholicism is being tracked in Poland quite regularly, consciously and comprehensively. The reasons for Czech interest of editors and the authors of the examined texts, both journalists working in specific centers as well as other Czech-related persons, as well as Czech colleagues and friends of the discussed press titles, also deserve attention.