Posts Tagged ‘Black Madonna of Czestochowa’

Poles crisis of faith: not in God, but in Catholic church

Thursday, April 20th, 2023
Poles crisis of faith

As Poles move away from the church – particularly the urban young, and also some older believers in the Catholic small-town heartlands – a deeply religious country wrestles with its own identity. The Black Madonna of Częstochowa looks much like other Eastern religious icons, with its deep golden halos and sombre colour palette. But the Read more

Polish court acquits activists who put LGBT rainbow on an icon

Monday, March 8th, 2021

A Polish court has acquitted three activists who put an LGBT rainbow on an icon of the Madonna and Child, made it into a poster and distributed it. The court said it did not see evidence of a crime. The activists had been charged with producing and distributing posters of an altered icon of the Read more