Nearly 60% of Poles believe the Catholic Church has too much influence on national politics, a new poll has found.

Jasna Gora Monastery near Czestochowa is Poland's national shrine and has been a pilgrim destination since the Middle Ages. iStock Father Simon Stefanowicz wears a white robe, sunglasses and a scowl.

The Polish government demanded that the Vatican take action after two bishops made “unacceptable statements” at one of the ...

A motorcycle pilgrimage to Jasna Góra began on Sunday at 11 a.m. The main point of the event was a holy mass at the meadows at the foot of the monastery. Ahead of the event the police had been ...

PrevNext <p>Pope Francis missed a step and fell to the ground Thursday as he was coming to an open-air altar to celebrate Mass at Poland&#39;s holiest shrine of Jasna Gora.</p> By: Associated ...

By visiting the Monastery of Jasna Góra and the Black Madonna of Częstochowa on Thursday, Pope Francis is making a statement about Poland, about John Paul II, and about the Church’s left/right ...

Pope Francis attends a mass on the occasion of the 1050th anniversary of Poland's Baptism at the Jasna Gora shrine in Czestochowa, Poland July 28, 2016. REUTERS ...

Pope St. John Paul II was intensely devoted to the Virgin Mary and to her icon at Czestochowa, making four pilgrimages to Jasna Góra while pope (1979, 1983, 1991 and 1997).

Over four million people visited the hilltop monastery in 2017 according to the Pauline order which runs Jasna Gora, including thousands of U.S. Catholics, and 123,000 made the journey on foot ...

The copied scores in Jasna Gora’s archives were made for the monastery’s musical ensemble, active between the late 16 th and early 20 th centuries. At issue in the search is whether monastery ...

Pope Francis falls as he arrives at the Jasna Gora shrine in Czestochowa, Poland July 28, 2016. Reuters Pope Francis has a perfectly good reason for why he took a tumble at a Mass in Poland last ...