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Session of the Polish Council for the Pastoral Care of Vocations
A Week of Prayer for Vocations, the 24th Pilgrimage of Families of Those Called and Persons Supporting Vocations to Jasna Góra, and the mode of operation of the pastoral care for vocations during the World Youth Day in Lisbon were the main topics addressed during the session of the National Council for the Pastoral Care of Vocations, held on April 12 in Warsaw. The meeting was officiated by the Delegate of the Polish Bishops’ Conference for Vocations, Bishop Andrzej Przybylski.
Bishop Bałabuch: We Never Lack Liturgical Challenges
“We never lack liturgical challenges, and new ones keep appearing, but we have well-prepared liturgists in Poland who watch over the correctness of liturgy,” Bishop Adam Bałabuch stressed, summing up his ministry as the president of the Commission for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments of the Polish Bishops’ Conference. He served two consecutive five-year terms.
President of the Polish Episcopate on LGBT+: Respect for individuals cannot lead to the acceptance of an ideology
Respect for specified individuals cannot, however, lead to the acceptance of an ideology that aims to revolutionize social customs and interpersonal relationships. “This revolution of customs and morals - emphasizes Pope Francis - has often waved «the flag of freedom», but it has, in reality, brought spiritual and material devastation to countless human beings, especially the poorest and most vulnerable” (Vatican, 17.11.2014) – writes Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference in a statement on LGBT+.
Archbishop Gądecki wrote a letter to Rev. Aleksander Ziejewski
Increasingly frequent acts of hatred against believers, including priests, and acts of profanation of sacred objects, places and objects of worship, so important for the Catholics in Poland, arouse my highest concern - wrote the President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, in a letter to Rev. Aleksander Ziejewski, parish priest of the Basilica of St. John the Baptist in Szczecin, who was beaten on Sunday 28 July.
Three years of war in Ukraine: the Catholic Church's assistance to the affected and refugees
The various types of assistance provided for three years to Ukrainians suffering as a result of the war was the subject of a press conference held on 13 February at the Secretariat of the Polish Bishops' Conference in Warsaw. Representatives of Caritas Poland, Caritas-SPES Ukraine, the Office of the Team for Aid to the Church in the East, the Order of Malta and the Knights of Columbus participated in the conference.
Archbishop Gądecki for the 75th anniversary of Dachau concentration camp liberation: It is a day of memory and prayer for peace and reconciliation
Let us remember in our prayers of those who have experienced suffering. May it be an expression of our memory, honour and solidarity towards the martyrs and a prayer to God for peace and reconciliation for all - said the President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, which is celebrated in Poland as the Day of Martyrdom of the Polish Clergy during World War II.
Message of Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk and Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki on the 80th anniversary of the Volhynia Massacre
We believe that in these difficult days we are writing successive important pages in the book of reconciliation so that we can arrange our shared future as free and equal to each other – we read in the message of Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki Metropolitan of Poznań, President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, on the 80th anniversary of the Volhynia Massacre.
