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Krakow cardinal tells mourners hatred does not have final word

Luke Coppen
Nov 09, 2026

Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś said that the final word belongs to love, not hatred, as he celebrated Mass Sunday for people killed and wounded in a mass shooting in Kraków.

Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś celebrates Mass at Kraków’s University Collegiate Church of St. Anne on Nov. 8, 2026. Credit: Screenshot from the @archidiecezjakrakowska8170 YouTube channel.

Ryś preached at the University Collegiate Church of St. Anne Nov. 8, the day after a gunman killed six people and injured 15 others in the city center, in an attack that Polish President Karol Nawrocki described as an “unprecedented act of terror.”

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