{"id":54542,"date":"2025-10-18T15:11:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/?p=54542"},"modified":"2025-11-02T14:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:11:31","slug":"polish-pilgrimage-sites-and-john-paul-free-online-lectures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/?p=54542","title":{"rendered":"Polish Pilgrimage Sites and John Paul &#8211; Free Online Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Polish Pilgrimage Sites AND JPII&#8217;s encyclical &#8220;Mother of the Redeemer&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">You are invited to a series of online lectures on 3 Wednesdays:<br><strong>October 29, November 5 and November 12, 2025<\/strong><br><strong>6:30 pm &#8211; 8:00 pm CDT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a3fdcbbd4e30&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a3fdcbbd4e30\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"464\" height=\"600\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPII_11-25-lectures-464x600.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPII_11-25-lectures-464x600.png 464w, https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPII_11-25-lectures-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPII_11-25-lectures-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPII_11-25-lectures-1187x1536.png 1187w, https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPII_11-25-lectures.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.thisImage.buttonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.thisImage.buttonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">  <strong>About Fr. Witold Kania<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Witold Kania is a priest from the diocese of Katowice in Upper Silesia,\u202fPoland, presently serving\u202fthe Parish of the Holy Cross in Tychy, Poland. He is the Archdiocesan Chaplain of the Knights of Columbus, Archdiocese of Katowice, Poland, and Chaplain to the Missionaries of Charity, Katowice, Poland.<br>For many years, Fr Witold has visited Houston and served parishioners at St. Vincent de Paul Parish.\u202fFr. Witold is a visiting professor at the University of St Thomas in Houston, Texas, where he has given numerous lectures and has led the UST study abroad in Poland for the past three years.\u202fHe holds a\u202fPh.D. from the Ecclesiastical Faculty of Philosophy, University of\u202fNavarra, Spain. He also earned a Licentiate in Theology, from the Academy of Catholic Theology, Warsaw, Poland, and a Master\u2019s degree in Theology from the Papal Academy of Theology, Cracow, Poland. He has special expertise in bioethics and ecology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/polish-pilgrimage-sites-and-jpiis-encyclical-mother-of-the-redeemer-tickets-1829956762939?aff=oddtdtcreator\">Register HERE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stthom.edu\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"99\" src=\"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Pol_Lang_UST_f23-200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48609\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are invited by  to a series of online lectures &#8220;Polish Pilgrimage Sites&#8221; on 3 Wednesdays: 10\/29, 11\/5 and 11\/12, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54542"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54707,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54542\/revisions\/54707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}