Warsaw: A Catholic layman will represent the Church in Poland at the official opening of the synodal process leading to the 2023 synod of bishops meeting in Rome. Aleksander Bańka, a professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, southern Poland, was appointed as a delegate of the Church inContinue Reading
Vatican City: The apostolic nunciature in Poland announced Friday disciplinary measures against a 97-year-old cardinal. A Nov. 6 statement, posted on the apostolic nunciature’s website, said that Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz would be subject to strict restrictions as the result of an investigation. The nunciature did not specify why it hadContinue Reading
Vatican City, Sept. 7, 2020: A cardinal who was close to St. John Paul II died September 5, two weeks after his 94th birthday. The death of Cardinal Marian Jaworski was announced Sept. 5 by the press office of the Archdiocese of Kraków. Jaworski anointed John Paul II before theContinue Reading
By Shay Cullen Cebu, Jan 31, 2020: January 27 marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation by Russian soldiers of the most notorious Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. The memory of the horrific genocide that killed six million Jews and a million other innocent people by the NaziContinue Reading
KALINOWKA, Jan. 8, 2019: The former Catholic priest of the Polish village of Kalinowka is serving three years in jail for molesting five schoolgirls. But Marta Zezula, a mother whose testimony helped convict him, says the priest’s victims are the ones made to feel guilty. “We are witches … becauseContinue Reading
While Poland is home to thousands of Catholic nuns from dozens of orders, they rarely attract attention like the country’s male clergy. That may be changing since a convent of Capuchins took up boxing to raise money for their orphanage. “We’d like to stress no one was knocked out orContinue Reading
Warsaw: Thousands of Poles took to the streets on March 24 to protest plans to tighten the abortion law, as the Council of Europe warned the new measure ran counter to Warsaw’s human rights commitments. In Warsaw, men and women carried large red signs shaped like hands with the wordContinue Reading
Poland’s new prime minister has called on the European Union to return to its “proper values” and traditional Christian roots. A Western-educated former banker who was sworn in on Dec 11, Mateusz Morawiecki said his dream was to “re-Christianise the EU” in an interview with a Catholic channel. Poland is a “great,Continue Reading
Brittany, France: A statue that was erected to honour the late Pope John Paul II has become the centre of a diplomatic crisis . France’s top administrative court, the Conseil d’Etat ruled in favour of the removal of a cross that is on a statue of John Paul in prayer citingContinue Reading
Poland’s bishops consecrated the Church in the country to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Tuesday in the presence of the president and prime minister. Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, president of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, celebrated the Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Zakopane, at which clergyContinue Reading