About the Center for Studies of the Catholic University of Lublin at the detention center in Lublin in the Vatican media

Vatican media chiefs Dr. Andrea Tornielli and Dr. Massimiliano Menichetti, who visited the university on June 1, 2023, took an interest in the unique project that is the Catholic University's Center for Studies for convicts at the detention center in Lublin. Today, Vatican News services published a video about the education of detainees.

The response to Menichetti and Tornielliega's proposal was to work on a short film report that shows the idea of conducting studies for prisoners, the transformation taking place in them, and the reality of life in prison, which takes on a different dimension when someone offers hope and comes with true evangelization.

At the Academy of Modern Media and Communication of the Catholic University of Lublin, with the involvement of the video and press team, two videos were produced. The first is the aforementioned reportage containing statements by inmates - students of the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) - and a commentary by the Rector of the Catholic University of Lublin, Rev. Prof. Miroslaw Kalinowski, the initiator of the establishment of the Center for Studies of the Catholic University for convicts at the detention center in Lublin. The second film is symbolic "Without words" spoken, but is accompanied by a commentary in the form of text. The entire project is complemented by press dispatches, which, like the films, have been translated into Italian, English and German.

The materials prepared today appeared in the Vatican media, for which the truth told through the testimony and accounts of people and through their life experience is fundamentally important.

Vatican News, among others, thanks to satellite and new technologies, reaches even very remote areas of Africa or Asia. It is not only a multimedia endeavour, but also a multilingual one; the editors run news services in many different languages. The Vatican's current information and communications system broadcasts and publishes in as many as 51 languages. Vatican News has hundreds of thousands of followers and millions of followers on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, among others.

The Academy of Modern Media and Communication of the Catholic University of Lublin expresses its gratitude for the willingness to cooperate, openness and professionalism of the staff of the Detention Center in Lublin, especially the director of the unit, Lt. Col. Anna Ausz, and the spokeswoman, Capt. Beata Fronczek.

The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin has been providing educational classes for people deprived of liberty for more than 10 years. The initiative - known since 2022 as the Center for Studies of the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) at the detention center in Lublin - is aimed at people not only in the Lublin detention center, but also in other prisons throughout Poland. It is a unique venture on a European scale.

Vatican News material:

• Rektor KUL: 80 proc. absolwentów studiów w więzieniu nie wraca do przestępczości
• Poland: Low rates of recidivism among prisoners who obtain university degree