The ruling Law and Justice party that has aligned itself closely with the Catholic Church seeks to win a third straight term in the upcoming Polish parliamentary election. The party’s Christian values have led many young Poles to turn away from religion.
Dominika Gala grew up going to Mass with her grandmother and attending Catholic school in Warsaw. After her grandmother’s death in 2010, she began to drift away from the church. A decade later, when the Catholic leadership backed a near-total abortion ban in Poland, Gala made her fervent disagreement clear. She formally left the church…
KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) Eighteen years after the death of St. John Paul II April 2, 2005, his native Poland remembered him with vigils and marches.
The biggest one a crowd of an estimated tens of thousands of faithful marched through the streets of the capital, Warsaw. Similar marches were organized in cities and towns across the country.
The crowds marking Pope John Paul II s death anniversary were not as large as they had been in the first years after his death, and since his 2014
(OSV News) Polish church leaders have welcomed renewed calls for the beatification of a popular priest, Father Franciszek Blachnicki (1921-1987), following official confirmation that he was killed by communist secret police agents. Most Poles still feel a sense of unfulfilled justice, and the murder of priests forms part of this particularly when attempts to uncover the truth still face impediments, said Father Piotr Mazurkiewicz, former secretary-general of COMECE, the Commission of th