We are an international civic association and our vision is:
KAROL WOJTYLA SCHOOL OF MISSION (MŠKW)
THE MISSION of the MŠKW
According to the example of the life and work of Karol Wojtyla, we try to:
provide formative experiences of people of different professions, ages, and family statuses and thus contribute to the development of culture and society;
create an international community of persons making a concrete contribution to relieving human misery (spiritual, moral, and material).
MEMBERS AND PARTNERS of the MŠKW
Members and fellow workers of the MŠKW are graduates and students of the International Theological Institute in Gaming and Trumau (Austria), and the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Studies in Rome, as well as of programs organized by the Karol Wojtyla Academy in Slovakia: the Family Pastoral Care Diploma and Master‘s Program in Theology of Marriage and Family in Košice. In addition, we work with international lecturers and graduates from our own projects.
The international character of the MŠKW helps to create a wider-ranging community and foster cooperation with people and organizations abroad with similar aims.
THE PILLARS of the MŠKW


Bringing the teachings of the Church in its fullness to people of different professions, ages and family statuses in an understandable language, with a focus on the anthropology of man according to the example of Karol Wojtyla, St. John Paul II.

The basis of every human relationship is a relati-onship with the One who is the source of true, pure love. In order to be able to love and be a gift to others, we must first learn to receive God's love and allow ourselves to be transformed by it.

Creating an international community of people who make a specific contribution to relieving human misery: spiritual,
moral, and material.
HISTORY AND PRESENT of the MŠKW
History of MŠKW
We are a community of people touched by the Church's teaching on human love and anthropology during our studies. This experience has simply led us to start bringing this teaching to others. Our mission started informally in 2009 by organizing study groups, summer schools, and weekend retreats, when we studied human love on the basis of St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body. In this way we have become active not only in Slovakia, but also in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Austria, Russia, and Ukraine.
We started the project by organizing weekend retreats, first in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia. This has been a success for eight years now, the result of interest from young adults and students who wish to discover the idea of the purity and beauty of human love according to the teachings of St. John Paul II. These regular weekend retreats inspired many participants to further develop their education in this field, in Slovakia and abroad.
The increasing interest in these weekend retreats has contributed significantly to the foundation of the Karol Wojtyla School of Mission (MŠKW). It has been active as a non-governmental organization since October 2016.
The Karol Wojtyla House of Mission
Since June 2019 we have been renting the Karol Wojtyla Mission House in Košice.
The house is at the same time an official seat and the office of our organization. It is also a community center for those who have become inspired by the teaching of the Catholic Church and especially with the teaching of the St. Pope John Paul II. The House of Mission breathes with life. More life will come to it with your visit. We will be very delighted to have you among us. Our desire is to build our house in line with the idea: "More we become a gift to one another, more beautiful will be the community formed among us."
Present activities
We give talks, lectures and testimony about the Theology of the Body (catechesis of St. John Paul II on human love and sexuality) at various events – formation retreats, seminars, conferences, spiritual retreats or directly in schools – in grammar schools, universities, not only in Slovakia, but also in the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Austria, Russia, Latvia and other countries.
SLOVAKIA: In 2024/2025, the eleventh year of spiritual retreats is planned in the Diocese of Nitra with the blessing of the local Father Bishop Viliam Judák and Father Bishop Peter Beňo and also in the Diocese of Spiš with the blessing of Father Bishop František Trstenský and Vladyka Jonáš Maximus, which are called Formation Course in Theology of the Body "CALL TO LOVE".
At the same time, we are dedicated to form study groups of the Theology of the Body, organizing of spiritual retreats and lecturing (about the Theology of the Body as well as topics on chastity, marriage, concecrated life, about the meaning and purpose of life, human dignity etc.)
Since 2017, in cooperation with the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University in Košice, we organize every semester seminar courses Sexuality in the teaching of the Church (12 meetings) (the old name Láska, sexualita a zmysel života v učení Cirkvi) (on human love, sexuality, chastity, marriage, consecrated life and fertility), Love and Responsibility and Theology of the Body. Seminar courses are held online, in Bratislava, Košice and now also in Žilina.
UKRAINE: Our other activities include missionary work in Ukraine. In addition to spiritual renewal, we focus on humanitarian and material aid to the poor, orphans, injured soldiers, youth, young families or abandoned people.
Our Dream
Our dream is to build the first international MISSION CENTRE of its kind in Slovakia — the KAROL WOJTYLA SCHOOL OF MISSION (MŠKW), which would provide a community background for formation and education of the next generation according to the life and work of Karol Wojtyla, St. John Paul II.
Our wish is that it become a place where people from different countries of the world (mostly Slavic), people of different ages and backgrounds experiences could come together for a systematic education and formative training; a place where we would learn together to use our gifts, talents, knowledge, and personal example to witness the beauty and dignity of the human person, the human body, and love according to God's plan; a place where the Christian East will meet the West; a place in quiet surroundings, where our alumni, students, coworkers, and friends would be able to come and quiet down, pray and create a community.
The main end of the MSKW Missionary Community Centre would be to create a space for the building of an international community of people who will work together to uplift the dignity of the human person and to build a culture of love and life.
Please help us to make this dream come true...
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IBAN: SK3783300000000019810513
Bank address: Fio banka, a.s., branch of a foreign bank, Nám. SNP 21, 811 01 Bratislava
I wish you and ask for God's abundant blessing on these efforts of yours through the intercession of St. John Paul II."
– Mons. Viliam Judák, Bishop of Nitra
‘I thank you and all your co-workers of the Mission School for the valuable service you do in favour of education in love, sexuality and the meaning of life.... I wish you and your co-workers the abundance of God's blessing and graces.’
– Mons. Stanislav Zvolenský, Metropolitan Archbishop of Bratislava