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The President of the Polish Episcopate thanked the faithful for their discipline
I would like to thank all the faithful for their discipline, the priests for their Sunday ministry and the medical services for their service to life - said Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference. He expressed his hope that from the current situation of the pandemic the good of seeking the Word of God will arise.
The Plenary Assembly of the Polish Bishops’ Conference
The pastoral care of married couples and families and help to victims of war in the Middle East were the main topics addressed at the 375th Plenary Assembly of the Polish Bishops’ Conference. Furthermore, the Bishops urge all parties involved in political and social life to show mutual respect and to work toward reconciliation, unity, and peace. They ask all the Poles to pray for their homeland.
Polish Bishops on Current Issues of the Church in Poland (Communiqué After the Meeting)
The review of the visit ad limina apostolorum, the Synod of Bishops on synodality, the affairs of Polish families, and the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border - these were the main topics of the 390th Plenary Meeting of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, which was held on 18-19 November at Jasna Góra.
Cardinal Semeraro: To the new Blesseds we commend the Ukrainian people, migrants and our quest for peace
To the new Blesseds we commend our needs and our worries, our hopes and our expectations. Today in a special way, we commend to them the Ukrainian people, migrants and our desire for peace - said Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints in his homily, read in Polish by Bishop Jacek Kiciński, during the Holy Mass for the Beatification of Sr. M. Paschalis Jahn and her nine Companions, which took place on June 11th in the cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Wrocław.
Bishops of Congo call on nation to embrace love and forgiveness
Congo Brazzaville's Catholic newspaper, “La Semaine Africaine” reports this week that the Bishops of Congo Brazzaville, at the end of their Plenary Assembly, have released a pastoral statement calling on the people of the Republic of Congo to live their “Christian vocation as witnesses of God’s mercy to others.” This, the Bishops emphasise, “means showing God’s forgiveness, compassion, tenderness and love, to build a fairer Congo, where unity, reconciliation, dialogue, harmony and sharing take precedence over selfishness, hatred, rancour, vindictiveness and divisions,” the Bishops emphasise.
The President of the Episcopate celebrated the Holy Mass for victims of pandemic within the CCEE Prayer Network
During Lent, the bishops of Europe launched a network of prayer, the so-called Eucharistic chain, for over 770,000 people in Europe who have died from Covid-19. As part of this initiative, the President of the Polish Bishops' Conference and Vice-President of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences (CCEE), Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, celebrated Mass for the victims of the pandemic on March 15 in the Chapel of the Poznań Archbishops' Palace.
