CENTRAL FALLS — Mary Plonka’s mother was one of the founders of Holy Cross parish in 1917, helping to create a place of worship for Polish National Catholics, including her own daughter. Mary attended ...

More than 5,000 people joined parishioners of San Diego’s Polish mission in Pacific Beach for a weekend full of pierogi, polka and all things Polska at an annual festival, organizers said. While the ...

A girl holds a Polish flag as Pope Francis leads the Angelus March 19, 2017, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (Credit: Tony Gentile/Reuters via CNS.) Listen WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Catholic ...

Nanticoke’s St. Stanislaus to shut doors Sunday as part of consolidation. Frank Mrufchinski stands next to a St. Stanislaus Church window paid for by he and his sister to honor his father. Clark Van ...

SCRANTON – As the Polish National Catholic Church celebrates 125 years since it broke away from the Roman Catholic Church, members of the Polish faith are looking to find a new leader of their Central ...

People walk toward the last Syrian government checkpoint while waiting for permission to leave the besieged section of Damascus. (CNS photo/ Omar Sanadiki, Reuters) Unlike cities in Western Europe or ...

Thousands of people protested during mass at Polish churches against a court ruling, with some spraying slogans on the buildings and others stringing up lines of black laundry. It is first time ...

KRAKÒW, Poland – It was late at night on Feb. 26, when a few minivans pulled into the driveway of Dominican sisters’ “Dom Chłopaków” (“Home of the Boys”) in Broniszewice, in central Poland. The vans ...

The Rev. John Kutek walked through the charred remains of his northeast Minneapolis church, scanning the pile of blackened priest vestments, chalices eerily warped by flames, and marble altars ...