Heschel Center News
Tracing Jewish history: international visit to the Abraham J. Heschel Center for Catholic-Jewish Relations at KUL
As part of the educational trip “Lithuania & Poland: Holocaust & Jewish Life Study Trip 2026,” organized by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a group of more than a dozen participants from different parts of the world is visiting sites in Lithuania and Poland where the Holocaust took place. The…
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Heschel Center News: Fr. Adam Sztark — from Zbiersk to Slonim. The story of a Righteous Jesuit
Fr. Adam Sztark hid Jews in his parish, arranged shelter in private homes, and worked with Sisters Ewa Noiszewska and Marta Wołowska, who sheltered Jewish children and families in the convent in Slonim. For helping Jews, Fr. Adam Sztark SJ was arrested by the Germans and shot on December…
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Benedict XVI and Jewish Dialogue: A Legacy Revisited at His Centenary
The centenary of Benedict XVI’s birth highlights his enduring legacy, with special focus on his commitment to dialogue and reconciliation between Christianity and Judaism, rooted in their shared biblical heritage. A key anniversary initiative is an exhibition in Italy, supported by Poland, reflecting on the Pope’s life and thought.…
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Biblical commentaries
Sunday Psalm: A Small Liturgy of Everyday Happiness
Can happiness be found in an ordinary day? In a morning cup of coffee, in a child’s laughter, in the tiredness that follows honest work? Psalm 128 answers: yes. It is one of the warmest texts of the Bible—a hymn of blessing that does not fall from heaven like…
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Psalm for Today: God Is a Rock, Not an Illusion
Psalm 31 is the prayer of a person who, at their most fragile moment, discovers that they do not have to be alone. It shows that trust is not born of strength, but of the courage to be vulnerable before God, who is a rock, not an illusion. It…
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Sunday Psalm: The Mountain Is Not a Sentence, but a Promise
Modern people often feel lost because they live in a world without a mountain. Everything is flat, relative, without a summit. The psalm restores the vertical dimension of life—not to weigh you down, but to show that there is something higher, and that it is worth going there. And…
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The Encyclopedia of Righteous
Polikarp Maciejowski (1891–1965)
Polikarp Maciejowski (1891–1965) Polikarp Maciejowski (born in 1891 in Cytowiany, Samogitia; died c. 1965) was a Polish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar known for supporting the Jewish population during the Second World War[1]. As a member of a religious order, he became involved in pastoral and educational work among Poles…
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Ferdynand Machay (1889–1967)
Ferdynand Machay Ferdynand Machay (born 4 May 1889 in Jabłonka, Orawa; died 31 July 1967 in Kraków) was a Polish Catholic priest, papal prelate (infułat), theologian, and an active socio-political activist during the period of the Second Polish Republic. Born into a patriotic family, he became involved from an early…
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Michał Kubacki (1898–1978)
Rev. Michał Kubacki Rev. Michał Kubacki (born 6 September 1898 in Biechowo near Września, died 18 July 1978 in Lubrza) was a Polish Catholic priest, a Salesian, and a recipient of the title Righteous Among the Nations.[1][2] He came from a farming family in Greater Poland (Wielkopolska)—his parents were Władysław…
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