Polish Bishops' Conference. News
Polish Episcopate Committee: the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising calls for prayer for peace
The outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 19, 1943, was a cry for life, freedom, identity and place in the world for the Jewish people. The anniversary of this uprising calls for a prayer for peace, especially in Ukraine - stressed Bishop Rafał Markowski, Chairman of the Committee for Dialogue with Judaism of the Polish Bishops' Conference.
About 500 million PLN was donated by the Polish Church to refugees from Ukraine
Catholic and Greek Catholic parishes in Poland collected and provided Ukrainian refugees staying in Poland with financial and material aid worth at least 209 million PLN, monks and friars donated - 29 million PLN, and nuns donated- 4.3 million PLN. The value of the support provided through Caritas Polska and diocesan Caritas is 241.3 million PLN - according to data presented on Wednesday by the Institute of Statistics of the Catholic Church and Caritas Polska.
Meeting of the President of the Polish Episcopate with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
A meeting with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I took place at the Warsaw Archbishops' House. The guests were welcomed by Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz, the Metropolitan of Warsaw. This was followed by a private conversation, without the participation of the media, between Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, President of the Polish Bishops' Conference, and Patriarch Bartholomew.
Audience of the President of the Polish Episcopate with Holy Father Francis
The current issues related to the functioning of the Church in Poland during the ongoing war in Ukraine were at the center of the meeting of the President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference with Holy Father Francis, who received Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki in a private audience on March 28th. The meeting lasted 45 minutes.
The President of the Polish Episcopate thanked Fr. Pawel Ptasznik for His Service in the Vatican
The Church in Poland, especially our Episcopal Conference, owes you a great debt of gratitude, which we wish to repay with our prayers, kind words, and good memories - wrote Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki, the President of the Polish Bishops' Conference, in a letter to Fr. Pawel Ptasznik on the occasion of his retirement from working in the Secretariat of State of the Holy See.
Letter of Fraternal Concern from the Episcopate’s President regarding the German “Synodal Path”
Bearing in mind this communion of faith and history between Poland and Germany, I would like to express my deep concern and anxiety with regard to the information that has been recently received from some spheres of the Catholic Church in Germany - wrote the President of the Polish Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki, in a letter addressed to the President of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing, regarding the German “synodal path”.
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