Catholic University Honors Criminals While the Faith Burns
VaticanNews portal reports on June 26, 2026, that inmates at a prison in Lublin, Poland, are earning university degrees from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), with seven more prisoners completing bachelor’s theses in Family Studies. The program, launched in 2013, has so far graduated 63 inmates, with international interest from Rome’s prison authorities. Fr. Mirosław Kalinowski, who supervised the theses, called the studies “both a reward and a sound method of re-education,” while noting that 80 percent of participants do not return to crime. This celebration of criminal rehabilitation through academic achievement, reported by the Vatican’s own media arm, perfectly encapsulates the conciliar Church’s inversion of priorities: the transformation of Catholic institutions into instruments of naturalistic humanism while the supernatural order is abandoned.

