The Ordo Iuris Institute is an independent research and litigation center that shapes the social debate as a defender of life, family, freedom, and Poland’s Christian heritage. By providing legal professionalism, scholarly activities, education, and precedent-setting litigation intervention, we strengthen both national and international guarantees of fundamental rights and freedoms.

• Over a year has passed since Donald Tusk’s latest government was established in Poland.

• The Polish Sejm is working on a bill to criminalize so-called “hate speech”.

• The results of the latest report, EU Gender-based Violence Survey – Key Results, on the topic of violence against women, which includes data from 27 member states, show that Scandinavian countries such as Denmark, Finland, and Sweden have some of the highest rates of violence against women (52%, 47%, and 46%, respectively).

In the past decade, gender ideology has become a polarizing global issue, challenging established scientific, moral, and cultural truths. This ideology, which promotes the idea that gender identity can differ from one's biological sex, has spread into various spheres of society, including education, medicine, politics, and everyday life.

Looking toward the Holy Family, we rediscover the beauty of the natural order, where marriages joined together by God's love enable maternal “fiat” said to life, and inspire paternal devotion and sacrifice. May the experience of family security, goodness and beauty fill our homes, kindling us to serve life, marriage and family with ever greater urgency.