The Polish Theological Society in Krakow, operating after World War II, was based on a statute registered by the Presidium of the National Council in Krakow in 1946. The new statute was a compromise between the original statute of 1924 and the post-war realities, taking into account the history and tradition of the Society's activities. Only after 1989, when it became possible to change the statute, a special commission composed of, among others, Fr. Jan Wal, Fr. Tadeusz Pieronek and Fr. Kazimierz Waliczek, developed a new statute. The new statute was accepted by the General Meeting of the PTT in Krakow in January 1990 and sent for approval by the Polish Episcopal Conference. After two years, on February 21, 1992, the new statute was approved. Both the old and new statutes are divided into three main parts called chapters. Analysis of the content of both statutes and the differences between them allows us to notice accents in the Society's activities that were subject to the influence of both the authorities of the Polish People's Republic and the hierarchy of the Church. Restrictions from the communist authorities led to the territorial limitation of PTT's activities to the borders of the Krakow Voivodeship. However, the church authorities limited the access of lay people to full membership rights, seeing their place only among supporting members. Only changes in the Church after the Second Vatican Council and the fall of the totalitarian system in Poland in the 1980s led to a change in this point of view.