After her grandmother’s death in 2010, she began to drift away from the church. A decade later, when the Catholic leadership backed a near-total abortion ban in Poland, Gala made her fervent ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

But this turnabout was prefaced, and probably caused, by a watershed shift in the once unassailable position of the Catholic Church in Poland. Besides their hard-line populism on the above wedge ...

Poland now has five cardinals, four of whom are under the age of 80 with the right to vote in the next conclave. What is the biggest challenge facing the Catholic Church in Poland today?

She was formerly employed by the communication offices of the Catholic Church in Poland. Currently, she is a journalist covering news of the Catholic Church in Central and Eastern Europe.