The Polish Catholic Church, facing declining church attendance due to scandals of clergy abuse, has elected Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda as its new leader.

Archaeologists recently uncovered “sensational” artifacts beneath a historic monastery in Poland — offering a glimpse into ...

CZESTOCHOWA, Poland — 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 ...

Polish church's survival an underdog tale. Parishioners' tenacity triumphs as church reopens on Sunday. By Paul Grondahl Updated April 2, 2012 8:03 a.m.

The Polish church is in a deep crisis, as its authority is sapped by cascading sexual abuse scandals and as more people grow wary of its perceived alliance with the country’s right-wing government.

A gothic church in Poland has been transformed into a lush indoor forest as part of an innovative art installation.

An abandoned Catholic chapel in rural Oxfordshire is one of the last visible reminders of a refugee camp that once housed ...

Today, 270,000 children are baptized, 70,000 couples get married in churches, and 29 percent of faithful in Poland attend mass. And the number of alumni, or future priests studying in seminaries ...

Marta Szymańska is curator of the Łódź Fotofestiwal in Poland, where the Polish part of the exhibition was previewed before ...

Since Poland’s transition from Communism to democracy in 1989, successive governments have offered the church state subsidies, tax breaks and a privileged status in the country’s cultural life.

A committed Catholic who served from childhood as an altar boy, Karol dreamed as a teenager of entering the seminary in his hometown in northern Poland and becoming a priest.“I had a deep faith ...