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: The eighth year of the Theology of the Body Course of formationtook place during 2019/2020 year in the Nitra Diocese with the blessing of the local father, Bishop Viliam Judák. Responding to great interest, we started the Theology of the Body course of formation in the east of Slovakia as well, in Smižany, where the second year was organized.

At the same time, we are dedicated to form study groups of the Theology of the Body, the second level course Love and Responsibility 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 have been organizing semester programs about human love, sexuality, chastity, marriage, virginity, and fertility. Meetings are held in the format of seminars. There are three programs: 1. Love, sexuality, and the meaning of life in the teaching of the Church (about the Human Love, Sexuality, the Virtue of Chastity, Marriage, Virginity, and Fruitfulness) with a possibility to continue in the second level programs Love and Responsibility and Theology of the Body.

UKRAINE: Our other activities include missionary activities in Ukraine.

In addition to spiritual retreats, we have been providing humanitarian and material aid to poor people, orphans, young people, young families, and destitute people.