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Polish Bishops at the opening of Jubilee 2025: A time of grace, hope and reconciliation
It is a time of special grace, mercy, indulgences, and opportunities for reconciliation with God and people – Polish bishops said about the Jubilee Year 2025 during the celebrations inaugurating it in Polish dioceses. They also encouraged people to become signs of hope. Opening Masses for the Jubilee were celebrated in all cathedrals and co-cathedrals on 29 December 2024.
President of the Polish Episcopate: I join spiritually with those affected by the floods and those providing aid
I join spiritually with all those affected by the floods in the southern Poland. I also pray for those providing aid and appeal to people of goodwill for the necessary support for those affected and the victims of the natural disaster – the President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda SAC communicated via social media on 15 September.
Polish Bishops for the new school year 2024/2025: Dear Pupils, we encourage you to take part in Religious Edaction at school
Dear Pupils, we encourage you to take part in Religious Education at school. Take advantage of this opportunity to get to know God more deeply. If necessary, make an effort to overcome any difficulties that arise. By choosing Religious Education, you give a beautiful testimony of your faith – wrote Polish bishops in the Message of the Polish Bishops’ Conference on the occasion of the beginning of the new school year 2024/2025.
President of the Polish Episcopate on the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War: Let us make the effort to build peace
We should do everything possible to build peace. The day of 1 September calls us to undertake this effort, to undertake the effort to build peace with our prayers, our attitude, our care, and everything else - said the President of the Polish Bishops' Conference Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda SAC on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II.
The Presidium of the Polish Episcopate requests an examination of the legal status of the decree of the Minister of Education of 26 July 2024
The Presidium of the Polish Bishops' Conference forwarded a petition to the First President of the Supreme Court requesting a motion to the Constitutional Tribunal to examine the compliance of the manner of issuing the decree of the Minister of Education of 26 July 2024, amending the decree on the conditions and manner of organising religious education in public kindergartens and schools, with Article 12(2) of the Act of 7 September 1991 on the educational system.
The President of the Polish Episcopate: The Church is committed to creating safe and violence-free environments
The Church is involved in social action to create environments that are safe and free from all forms of violence – underlined Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda SAC, President of the Polish Bishops' Conference, in a communiqué on the implementation of standards for the protection of minors in the Church in Poland.
