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15-18 June 2025: The annual meeting of the General Secretaries of the European Bishops’ Conferences in Istanbul
The annual meeting of the General Secretaries of the European Bishops’ Conferences will take place in Istanbul, from 15 to 18 June 2025, organised by the CCEE in collaboration with the Turkish Bishops’ Conference. The theme for this year is: “The Reform of the Ecclesiastical Structures in a Missionary and Synodal Perspective”. Bishop Marek Marczak, Secretary General of the Polish Bishops' Conference, is taking part in the meeting.
Theological and pastoral perspectives, a decade after "Deus caritas est"
(VIS) An international conference entitled "Love will never end. Prospects ten years on from the Encyclical Deus caritas est" will be held on Thursday 25 February in the Vatican's New Synod Hall. Organised by the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum", the conference forms part of the programme of events for the Jubilee of Mercy and has the aim of examining in depth the theological and pastoral implications of Pope Benedict XVI's first Encyclical for today's world, especially in relation to the activity of those who work in the Church's charitable service. The event will be attended by, among others, representatives of the episcopal conferences and Catholic charitable organisations from all over the world.
Spokesman of the Polish Episcopate on the Jubilee of the World of Communications: In diversity we sought what is most important, namely the voice of the Gospel
We represented various media, and in diversity we sought what is most important, that is, the voice of the Gospel, which can be a keystone for various political, social and economic trends – said the Spokesman of the Polish Bishops' Conference, Fr Leszek Gęsiak SJ, who was in Rome with a group of Polish journalists to celebrate the Jubilee of the World of Communications.
The Episcopate’s President Entrusted the Nation and the Church in Poland to St. Joseph
In front of the miraculous image of St. Joseph in the National Sanctuary of St. Joseph in Kalisz the President of the Polish Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki, made the Act of Entrustment of the Nation and the Church in Poland to St. Joseph. The Act is an expression of faith in the protection of St. Joseph, a request for his help, and a commitment to live in accordance with the will of God.
Secretaries General of the European Bishops' Conferences met in Istanbul
From 15 to 18 June 2025, in Istanbul, the general secretaries of the bishops' conferences of 29 European countries gathered for their annual meeting on the theme "The Reform of the Ecclesiastical Structures in a Missionary and Synodal Perspective". Special moments of the meeting were also a visit to Nicaea and a meeting with His Holiness the Patriarch Bartholomew I in Fanar.
“The poor you will always have with you” - The Holy Father’s Message for the 5th World Day of the Poor
“It is my hope that the celebration of the World Day of the Poor, now in its fifth year, will grow in our local Churches and inspire a movement of evangelization that meets the poor personally wherever they may be. We cannot wait for the poor to knock on our door; we need urgently to reach them in their homes, in hospitals and nursing homes, on the streets and in the dark corners,” writes the Holy Father Francis in his message for the World Day of the Poor, announced today (June 14, 2021).
