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Father Adrian Mantykiewicz, still bearing bandages and bruises from the Sept. 24, 2026, knife attack at the Benedictine sisters' abbey in Jaroslaw, Poland, celebrates Mass Sept. 26 and delivers a message of forgiveness, praying for the attacker and urging respect and solidarity between Poles and Ukrainians. (OSV News screenshot/courtesy Radio Fara)

World

Days after deadly attack, Polish priest returns to altar preaching forgiveness

OSV News|Sep 28, 2026|4 Min Read

A man holding a Polish national flag with coat of arms lights a candle at the site of a mass burial ceremony of Poles killed by Ukrainian nationalists during World War II in the former Polish village of Puznyky, in Ukraine's Ternopil region Sept. 6, 2025. In 2024, Ukraine granted Poland access to the sites in the western part of the country, once part of Poland, to carry out joint search and exhumation of the remains of Polish victims. (OSV News/Anastasiia Smolienko, Reuters)

World

Polish, Ukrainian cardinals urge 'disarmament of language' amid WWII history tensions

OSV News|Jul 1, 2026|6 Min Read

A picture depicting the new martyrs is seen at the Sanctuary of St. John Paul II in Kraków, Poland, on June 6, 2026, during the beatification Mass for nine Polish Salesian priests killed in German Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The beatification ceremony highlighted not only the Salesians' martyrdom but also their lives as educators, pastors and mentors to young people. (OSV News photo/courtesy Malgorzata Latawiec)

World

Nine Polish Salesians killed in Nazi death camps are beatified in Kraków

OSV News|Jun 16, 2026|6 Min Read

The site of Marian apparitions in 1877 in Gietrzwald, Poland, is seen in a 2022 photo. Two young visionaries reported the Virgin Mary appeared to them some 160 times over the course of two months. The Marian sanctuary in the Polish village of Gietrzwald is the only Vatican-recognized apparition site in the country. (OSV News photo/Paulina Guzik)

World

'Polish Lourdes,' where Mary appeared to 2 girls 160 times, could soon draw global attention

OSV News|May 4, 2026|5 Min Read

Wiktoria Ulma is pictured in an undated photo with three of her children and the children of relatives outside the Ulma home in Markowa, a village in southeastern Poland. Wikotria, her husband, Józef, and their seven children were executed March 24, 1944, by Nazis who discovered that the family had been sheltering eight Jews who had escaped internment by German occupying forces. Ulma girls Stasia and Basia are pictured in the middle near their mother, who is holding son Wlodzimierz. (CNS photo courtesy National Remembrance Institute)

Vatican clarifies martyrdom of child born during World War II massacre

Carol Glatz|Sep 5, 2023|3 Min Read

JPII

World

Polish bishops defend St. John Paul II, form independent commission to investigate 'full picture' of archives

Paulina Guzik|Mar 15, 2023|4 Min Read

As bishop of Krakow in the 1960s, Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was a prolific writer. He is pictured in an undated photo. (OSV News photo, CNS file)

World

Polish experts reject claim JPII 'covered up abuse,' urge all church records be opened to give full context

Paulina Guzik|Mar 8, 2023|7 Min Read

Ulma

Faith

Polish family murdered by Nazis along with Jews they helped hide to be beatified Sept. 10

Paulina Guzik|Feb 15, 2023|5 Min Read

German troops march through Warsaw, Poland, in September 1939. The Polish bishops' conference has cautiously endorsed government demands for $1.29 trillion reparations from Germany for World War II damage. (CNS photo/National Archives)

World

Polish church backs new war reparations, but stresses reconciliation

Jonathan Luxmoore|Sep 6, 2022|3 Min Read

Pope Francis speaks during his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Aug. 31, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Discernment is ‘indispensable for living’: Pope Francis launches new catechesis series

Courtney Mares|Aug 31, 2022|3 Min Read

A delegate holds a program during an international conference, "Our Common Mission of Safeguarding God's Children," in Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 21, 2021. A Polish Catholic official defended the church's record in tackling sexual abuse by priests, after the head of the State Commission on Pedophilia complained it was refused access to clerical files. (CNS photo/Polish bishops' conference)

World

Polish church official: State commission can't access abuse documents

Jonathan Luxmoore|Aug 10, 2022|4 Min Read

Sisters of St. Elizabeth read at a Mass in Wroclaw, Poland, June 11, 2022; the Mass featured the beatification of 10 Polish members of the order who were killed by Russian soldiers at the end of World War II. (CNS photo/courtesy Congregation of Sisters of St. Elizabeth)

Pope Francis praises 'example of faith' of newly beatified Polish nuns martyred in WWII

Catholic News Agency|Jun 12, 2022|3 Min Read

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