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Bishop Markowski: Today we want to pay tribute to all the Victims of the Holocaust
Today we want to pay tribute to all the victims of the Holocaust. We keep the memory of their tragic fate, firmly believing that God is the God of Life, and man lives forever in God - wrote Bishop Rafał Markowski, chairman of the Committee for Dialogue with Judaism of the Polish Bishops' Conference, in a message on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
33 Refugees Drown While Germany's Asylum Seekers Face Attacks
(Vatican Radio) Turkey's state-run media say at least 33 people, including five children, have drowned in the Aegean Sea after their Greece-bound boat capsized off the Turkish coast, while far away in Germany refugees struggled in the aftermath of far-right attacks against them. Coast guards reportedly rescued 75 others from the sea Saturday near the resort of Ayvacik en route to the Greek island of Lesbos.
Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco elected new President of CCEE Cardinal Vincent Nichols and Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, Vice-Presidents
Principality of Monaco – This morning, the Presidents of Europe’s Bishops’ Conferences, members by right of CCEE (the Council of European Episcopal Conferences) elected the new CCEE Presidency for the five-year mandate 2016-2021. Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa and President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (former CCEE Vice President for the five years’ period 2011-2016), was elected as President, and to the roles of Vice-presidents were elected Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster and President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, and His Grace Mgr Stanisław Gądecki, Archbishop of Poznań and President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference. The Plenary Assembly thanked the newly-elected Vice-presidents for their willingness and wished them a period of profitable work in the service of evangelization and the Church in Europe, At the same time, the participants thanked the members of the outgoing Presidency for the work they have undertaken for the good of the Ch
Bishop Markowski: We strongly condemn antisemitic behaviour in Kalisz
We strongly condemn the antisemitic behaviour in Kalisz. Such attitudes have nothing to do with patriotism - Bishop Rafał Markowski wrote on behalf of the Committee for Dialogue with Judaism of the Polish Bishops' Conference. After burning the Kalisz Statute text and the antisemitic incidents that took place on 11th November.
Archbishop Wojda at COMECE Plenary Assembly: There is no right to kill, but to protect life
There is no right to kill, but to protect life – said Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda SAC, President of the Polish Bishops' Conference, in his homily during Holy Mass in the Łomża Cathedral, on the first day of the COMECE Plenary Assembly. The Eucharist was concelebrated by the bishops-delegates from the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union, who are meeting in Łomża until 19 April.
Word of German and Polish Bishops on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II
Poland became the first victim of World War II suffering almost six years under occupation, which was accompanied by countless atrocities and destructive politics of extermination of the Polish nation, especially the Jewish population – reads the Word of German and Polish Bishops on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II entitled “Common memory is the source of inspiration for a common present and future”.
Przewodniczący KEP: Trzeba sprowadzać do CCEE oraz do Europy styl synodalny
Trzeba uczyć się misji i jednocześnie sprowadzać do CCEE oraz do Europy styl synodalny, nie jeden przeciwko drugiemu, ale jeden z drugim – powiedział przewodniczący Konferencji Episkopatu Polski abp Stanisław Gądecki, który wziął udział w Zebraniu Plenarnym Rady Konferencji Episkopatów Europy (CCEE). Odbyło się ono w dniach 27-30 listopada br. w Valletcie, na Malcie, na zaproszenie arcybiskupa metropolity maltańskiego Charlesa Scicluny.
