Tag: Poland
Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors will focus its new...
KRAKOW, Poland -- As the Pontifical Commission for the Protection Minors concluded its Sept. 29-Oct. 3 assembly in Kraków, "following five days of intensive...
Cardinal Rys: With curial appointments expected, pope prioritizes listening over haste
KRAKOW, Poland -- As fall begins, Catholics are watching closely for Pope Leo XIV's first major Vatican appointments. One of the most urgent vacancies...
Polish Archbishop Wojciech Polak calls for peace after ‘reckless’ Russian drone...
WARSAW, Poland -- Several Russian drones entered Polish airspace in the morning hours of Sept. 10, and were shot down by Polish military, with...
On the road to Our Lady: How pilgrimage taught me the...
CZESTOCHOWA, Poland -- When you are born in a major pilgrimage destination, you grow up with a treasure -- a national shrine and sacred...
White doves rose into the sky when nuns perished during adoration...
WARSAW, Poland -- "Apparently, it is God's will that we die here," said Mother Janina Byszewska, the superior of the Benedictine Nuns of the...
Poland’s ‘living memorial’ to St. John Paul II marks 25 years...
WARSAW, Poland -- Thousands of young Poles made their way through the streets of Czestochowa July 19, singing and praying as they approached the...
Historians say St. John Paul II’s first visit to Poland led...
KRAKÓW, Poland -- Forty-five years ago, on June 2, St. John Paul II started his first papal pilgrimage to his native Poland, then shackled...
Poland’s Catholic church feels the pressure from new government’s ‘quick and...
Prominent Polish Catholics have voiced fears of unrest after the country's state-run television's informational and regional channels were forced off the air Dec. 20...
Polish museum on World War II veterans tortured, killed by communists...
WARSAW, Poland -- On Warsaw's Rakowiecka street, flanked by a smart new Metro station and office buildings, a gray cement wall runs mournfully along...
Cardinal Marcello Semeraro remembers the 10 Polish Sisters of St. Elizabeth...
VATICAN CITY-- Beatifying 10 Polish nuns killed by Russian soldiers at the end of World War II, it is difficult not to think of...