About us

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.

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."

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.