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Caritas Polska Turns 30 – It Started with Three People
Caritas Polska is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Caritas began with three people working on the top floor of the seat of the Polish Bishops’ Conference. Today, it is the largest charity organization in Poland and its aid programs for approx. 3 million people are run by over 100,000 volunteers.
Pope’s Day: Several thousand young people granted with scholarships
On the 102nd anniversary of the last Fatima apparition, the 19th Pope’s Day was celebrated in Poland under the motto “Rise! Let Us Be On Our Way”, organized by the “Work of the New Millennium” Foundation, which collects funds for scholarships for talented and unprivileged youth from small towns. During the nineteen years of its activity, the Foundation has taken care of several thousand young people from all over Poland in accordance with Pope Wojtyła’s call to “a new imagination of mercy”.
In Love And In Truth – the Position of the President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference and the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Once again we want to express our sincere will to continue the dialogue and the desire for even deeper reconciliation between our Churches. We trust that our Churches will soon be able to proclaim the Polish Pope as the patron of our reconciliation – we read in the Position of the President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference and the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church on the will to continue the dialogue and the desire for deeper reconciliation. The document was signed during the meeting of the Council of Diocesan Bishops, on August 27, 2019, at Jasna Góra.
President of the Bishops’ Conference: We thank God and Our Lady of Fatima for having saved the life of John Paul II
“We thank the Lord God and Our Lady of Fatima for having saved the life of the Polish Pope and, hence, for his long pontificate, which has strongly marked the history of the universal Church and the world,” said the President of the Polish Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the assassination attempt on the life of the Holy Father John Paul II, which fell on May 13th this year.
50,000 Polish Farmers Gave Thanks for the Harvest at Jasna Góra
“The concerns and challenges of the agricultural world today call us to consider with great esteem the farmer’s work, which—due to its dependency on nature—is exposed to greater risks than other branches of the economy,” noted the President of the Polish Bishops' Conference and Metropolitan Archbishop of Poznan Stanisław Gądecki.
3 May at Jasna Góra: Poland is to be entrusted to Christ and to the Blessed Virgin Mary
During the difficult time of the epidemic, May 3, at Jasna Góra, the President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, will entrust our Homeland to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and to the Blessed Virgin Mary Queen of Poland – said the spokesman of the Episcopate, Fr. Paweł Rytel-Andrianik.
Details of the Beatification of Mother Róża Czacka and Card. Stefan Wyszyński
“The joint beatification of mother Róża Czacka and Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński is not a coincidence; their paths crossed for 40 years,” said Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz on Tuesday, June 15, at the House of the Archbishops of Warsaw. During the meeting, details were given about the ceremony planned for next September 12th.
The President of the Polish Episcopate: We begin the nine-year Great Novena ahead of the two thousandth anniversary of the Redemption
With Easter we begin a nine-year Great Novena aimed at the spiritual and moral rebirth and preparation of the whole Church in Poland for the Jubilee of the two thousandth anniversary of the Redemption – wrote the President of the Polish Bishops' Conference Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda SAC in a communiqué on the Great Novena before the two thousandth anniversary of the Work of Redemption.
7 September: Canonisation of Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
On Sunday, 7 September 2025, the canonisation of Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will take place in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. The Polish Bishops' Conference will be represented by Bishop Grzegorz Suchodolski, Bishop Piotr Kleszcz OFMConv, Bishop Tomasz Sztajerwald, and Bishop Zbigniew Wołkowicz.
