Poland

An incoming doctor of the church, a “Pilgrimage of Peace” and more are highlights of this week.

For those who couldn’t participate in the Jubilee of Youth in Rome, summer youth ministry retreats in Poland were radiating a powerful spiritual energy, drawing thousands of young people to …

“I have no words of comfort for you today, let alone any explanation or justification,” wrote Archbishop Galbas.

Cultivating gratitude toward God “helps us not to waste his gifts” and “inclines us to reciprocate the love with which he surrounds us.”

Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś of Lódź spoke up after two retired bishops sparked outrage with their migration and border policy remarks at the Marian shrine of Jasna Góra earlier in July.

“We’ve tried to provide honest, responsible coverage of various issues, rather than just putting out propaganda.”

“Corpus Christi” (“Body of Christ”) is the Latin name of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ.

Survivor Jakub Pankowiak said the Polish bishops did not want to set up a fully independent commission to investigate past clergy sex abuse cases.

The prayer was interrupted “by the weather, not the Holy Spirit,” participants said.

Rather than flee the Soviet violence in 1945, heroic Polish sisters chose to remain with those they cared for. They were beatified in Braniewo May 31.