The Warsaw Uprising that broke out 80 years ago, on Aug. 1, 1944, was the biggest organized resistance fight in occupied Europe against the deadly German regime during World War II.
The uprising was also full of saints and the Catholic Church played
Spain's bishops and the country's government are on collision course once again over rival reports on church sexual abuse.
This time the heated debate concerns a financial compensation plan for the victims approved by the bishops' conference July 9 and rejected by government
In what he said was the most dramatic moment of his eight visits to Ukraine, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner, appealed from a Ternopil cemetery that the world needs to help Ukraine without further delays so that the "nonsense of war" stops.
Without
Taking over one of the most troubled dioceses in the country, Bishop Artur Wazny of Sosnowiec didn't waste time ahead of his June 22 installation.
Just days short of his official start in the diocese, Bishop Wazny announced he has established Catholic Poland's
On the final day of the Catholic Media Conference in Atlanta, the prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for Communication addressed questions posed by journalists about the dicastery's regular practice of posting art by Father Marko Rupnik -- a Rome-based priest accused of
The president of the Polish bishops' conference, Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda of Gdansk, has been accused of alleged negligence in a sex abuse case. The report, filed by a victim-survivor advocate under the new procedural norms established by the papal document "Vos Estis
St. John Paul II's American biographer, George Weigel, was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland by President Andrzej Duda at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw May 13.
Distinguished senior fellow at Washington's Ethics and Public
The Catholic Church needs to form priests who are empathetic and are "ready to face" the issue of abuse, said Archbishop Wojciech Polak of Gniezno, the current primate of Poland.
It concerns the whole church and "without a doubt" every diocese in Poland,
The Polish state Internal Security Agency March 26 raided three houses run by the the Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus as part of an ongoing investigation by Poland's new government into funding the congregation received from the previous government for
When Christians gathered in Jerusalem to remember Jesus' entry into the city, it was one of a few joyful moments in the Holy Land, "crushed by so much hatred" in the months following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
"Despite the war