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Spokesman of the Polish Episcopate on key Church events in 2024
The second plenary session of the Synod on Synodality, the new Presidium of the Polish Bishops‘ Conference, the Year of Prayer in preparation for the Jubilee 2025, the response of the Church side to the actions of the Ministry of National Education concerning the change in the organisation of religious education at school – these are the main Church events of the year 2024, which is summarised by the Spokesman of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, Fr Leszek Gęsiak SJ.
The Council of Diocesan Bishops will meet on 25 August
On the eve of the Solemnity of Our Lady of Częstochowa, 25 August, the Council of Diocesan Bishops will meet at Jasna Góra, as it does every year. The bishops will discuss, among other things, the Commission of Independent Experts and the planned restructuring of the media of the Polish Bishops' Conference.
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 Council for Pastoral Care for Poles Abroad in Europe met in Vilnius
The plenary meeting of the Council for Pastoral Care for Poles Abroad of Europe was held on 22-24 September 2023 at Domus Maria near the Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy in Vilnius, Lithuania. The Council brings together several dozen people - clergy, religious sisters, and laity, representing Polish-speaking pastoral care in European countries. Its chairman is the Conference of Polish Bishops’ Delegate for the Pastoral Care of Polish Emigrants, Bishop Piotr Turzyński. The meeting concerned issues related to catechesis.
