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Position of the Permanent Council of the Polish Bishops' Conference on the legal protection of human life
In view of the growing pressure in the public space and the actions of the government to change the legal protection of human life towards the legalization of the killing of children in their mothers’ wombs, we want to recall the unequivocal and unchanging position of the Church on this issue - wrote the Members of the Permanent Council of the Polish Bishops' Conference.
The Permanent Council of the Polish Episcopate recommends precautions in churches regarding coronavirus
“According to the Code of Canon Law, until March 29, we recommend that diocesan bishops grant dispensation from participating in Sunday Mass to the elderly, the faithful who have symptoms of infection (e.g. coughing, rhinitis, increased body temperature), children and school youth and adults who take direct care of them, as well as those who feel afraid of being infected” – announces the Order issued after Thursday’s meeting of the Permanent Council of the Polish Bishops’ Conference.
Fr. Martin Michalíček, New Secretary General of CCEE
Fr Martin Michalíček is the new Secretary General of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE). Late in the morning the Presidents of Europe’s Bishops’ Conferences, gathered Poznań (13-16) for their annual Plenary Assembly (13-16 September), elected him for a five-year term (with immediate effect). Fr Martin Michalíček succeeds Duarte da Cunha, who concluded a second five-year term. The CCEE President, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa, along with the Vice-presidents, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, his Grace Mgr Stanisław Gądecki, Archbishop of Poznań, and the Presidents of Europe’s Bishops’ Conferences, thanked Fr Duarte da Cunha for his dedication to leading the CCEE Secretariat and Fr Martin Michalíček for his readiness to serve the Church in Europe.
Presidency of the Polish Bishops’ Conference: There can be no place for killing disabled and sick children!
“Both believers and non-believers are called to protect life from its conception to natural death. There can be no place for killing other people, especially disabled and sick children! This is not only a matter of worldview or religion but above all of science which unambiguously shows that human life begins at the moment of conception.” We read this in the Message of the Presidency of the Polish Bishops’ Conference—entitled “Love; Do Not Kill!”—for this year’s Feast of the Holy Family, on Sunday, December 31st.
Letter of the President of the Bishops’ Conference to Kirill: “War is always a defeat for humanity”
“I ask you, Brother, to appeal to Vladimir Putin to stop the senseless warfare against the Ukrainian people, in which innocent people are being killed and suffering is affecting not only soldiers but civilians as well—especially women and children,” wrote the President of the Polish Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki, in a letter sent to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill on March 2nd.
