(Editor’s note: The author of this article, Malgorzata Koraszewska, is associated with the Polish rationalist website Racjonalista.pl. According to the site, “RACJONALISTA.pl is currently the biggest center for publicizing free-thinkers and rationalists in Poland“. We are pleased to hear about the growing rationalism movement in Poland, and to publish Malgorzata’s report on a recent atheist event in Krakow.)

In the town of Krakow in southern Poland a few young people decided that just because in this country they are not allowed to ride on a bus with the slogan “There Is Probably No God”, it is not reason enough to not go by foot. They threw a call into cyberspace and asked the authorities for permission to go along a certain route through the town over which the spiritual power had been, once upon a time, in the hands of Karol Wojtyla, later known as Pope John Paul II. Read the full story