This article describes the actions of the local apparatus of power in the Nowy Sącz district towards one of the areas of activity of the Catholic Church – teaching religion. It involves the period of reign of the First Secretary of the Communist Party’s Central  Committee, Władysław Gomułka, and attempts to show implementation of society’s secularisation policy by the District Committee of the Communist Party and terrain administration in the context of changing the course of Communists’ relationship towards the Church in 1958, sanctioned by acts of different weights. One of the most important aspects of this struggle was attempts to impose the secular model of educating youth by the Communists. This was expressed in a law passed on 15 July 1961 by the Sejm of the People’s Poland, on the development of the system of education. As a consequence, teaching religion was removed from primary and secondary schools, and the framework for control of non-school teaching of this subject was set. Responsibility for enacting the law and overseeing the execution of the regulation issued on its basis concerning the teaching of the catechism by priests fell entirely to the local administration, especially education authorities, supported by the Security Service, which through its operational measures monitored the situation of the Nowy Sącz clergy and indicated practicable actions. The whole policy remained under the control and assessment of the Communist Party’s Central Committee in Nowy Sącz.