
Pope Francis Praises ‘Example of Faith’ of Newly Beatified Polish Nuns Martyred in World War II
Sister Paschalis Jahn and nine fellow Elizabethan sisters were beatified Saturday in Wroclaw, Poland.
Sister Paschalis Jahn and nine fellow Elizabethan sisters were beatified Saturday in Wroclaw, Poland.
The 61-year-old bishop stressed the need for long-term support for Ukrainian refugees living in Poland.
SAINTS & ART: The origins of the Blessed Mother’s title as “Mary, Queen of Poland” — a feast celebrated May 3 — reach back to 1656.
Professor Gałkowski was a scholar, teacher, helper, husband and father — and he was my friend.
COMMENTARY: The run-up to Pope Francis’ trip to Malta and Holy Week included ‘Canada week,’ ‘Poland week,’ a meeting with the head of the Syro-Malankara Church and the publication of a major instruction on Catholic education.
COMMENTARY: That Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople would travel to Warsaw to stand alongside a Catholic bishop to call out the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill is altogether remarkable.
Among other images, the bells illustrate a DNA chain, the ultrasound of an unborn child and the Ten Commandments tablets.
It’s true what they say: In the worst of times, the best in people comes out. We witness this in incredible ways when filming in Poland, both in those Ukrainians who were fleeing, and showing such resilience and strength in spite of their situation, and then in the reaction and compassion from the Polish people themselves.
In a video message recorded on March 7 in the besieged Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk thanked the neighboring country on Monday for offering aid to refugees.
In a letter published Feb. 22, Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki questioned whether the initiative bringing together Germany’s bishops and laypeople was rooted in the Gospel.
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