Tag: Poland

Four years after Poles welcomed millions of Ukrainians fleeing Russia's full-scale invasion, Catholic leaders from both countries are urging their peoples not to let historical disputes undo that solidarity as disputes over World War II history inflamed relations between Poland and Ukraine.

While the famed image of Our Lady of Czestochowa is known worldwide, its story is full of dramatic events worth acknowledging.

Polish politics is disintegrating into a war between authoritarianism and state-imposed wokery. Are there lessons for other liberal democracies?

In Catholic Poland, Corpus Christi is more than a feast—it's a nationwide act of faith.

Over 20,000 young Catholics were evacuated from Lednica 7 June after a powerful storm cut short one of Central Europe's largest annual youth prayer events.

On 6 January, Poland set a new record for its annual Three Kings Parades, with 2 million people marching across 905 cities and towns.

Journalist Wlodzimierz Redzioch has just published a book recalling the courage of this simple vice-parish priest of Warsaw.

As all eyes were fixed on the Oder River in western Poland—one of two biggest rivers in the country, and efforts were underway to save major cities through which the river flows.

14 August marked the Feast Day of the saint who was martyred at Auschwitz when he offered his life in the place of a stranger: St Maximilian Kolbe.

Pope Francis greeted the thousands of pilgrims at his weekly General Audience in St Peter's Square, where he spoke about the theological virtue of love. He also praised the Polish pilgrims for their pro-life initiative.

In one of the most significant moments in Polish post-war history, the Ulma family was beatified in Markowa, in south-eastern Poland on 10 September. “I...

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...