Polish identity stemming from strong ties to the motherland and a lack of ethnic representation in the clergy led a group of Scranton faithful, including many immigrant coal miners, to splinter from ...

WARSAW, Poland — The Polish Catholic Church’s annual “Day of Islam” on Tuesday is an opportunity to overcome prejudices, a bishop who oversees Catholic-Muslim dialogue in the country has said. Bishop ...

It was a gloomy forecast for the Polish Catholic Church. "I say it's a dark night for the church," said Zbigniew Nosowski, one of Poland’s prominent intellectuals. "It is a difficult time of crisis." ...

For centuries, Poland was one of the most devoutly Catholic nations in Europe. While the country still has a reputation as a rare bastion of conservative Catholic culture in an ever-more-loudly ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Catholic Church authorities revealed Thursday they have recorded cases of 382 clergymen who have abused 625 victims under the age of 18 since 1990. The figure includes ...

A Catholic archbishop greeted Ukrainian refugees arriving at a train station in eastern Poland on Saturday amid a growing humanitarian crisis. Archbishop Adam Szal visited the new arrivals at the main ...

Polish women are making it clear: They've had enough. Their protests against the Law and Justice government and against the Catholic Church continue to gain momentum. The rage was ignited Oct. 22 when ...

CZESTOCHOWA, Poland (AP) — Dominika Gala grew up going to Mass with her grandmother and attending Catholic school in Warsaw. After her grandmother’s death in 2010, she began to drift away from the ...

Image above is of the triumphant 1979 visit of Pope John Paul II to his native Poland. Times have changed since the heyday of the sainted pope. I've made this point several times in this space since ...

The Catholic Church beatified a Polish family that sheltered Jews during World War II on Sunday, calling them "a ray of light in the darkness." The Latin formula of the Ulma family's beatification was ...