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John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Institution Info
A fundamental mission of the University, as it is stated in more detail in its Statute, involves "conducting research in the spirit of harmony between science and faith, along with teaching and educating Catholic intelligentsia as well as co-creating Christian culture."
Reference to God encoded in the mission of a Catholic university makes it a special community of professors and students, universitas magistrorum et scholarium, united by the same love of wisdom. What they have in common is the joy of seeking the truth in all fields of knowledge, its discovery and its faithful propagation.
The University embraces such features as: a certain legal system, an institutional connection with Church and Its teaching, scientific penetration of such areas as faith, religion, philosophy, Church, ethics, Catholic social science, the science of family, and the humanities in their deepest and broadest version.
We are an open university, because within its walls there is also a place for representatives of other religions and for those at the stage of searching for God. The existence of a Catholic university is indispensable for the development of Christian thought, which, as a matter of fact, helps a human being to fulfill his/ her sense of life. This thought was strongly emphasized by Pope John Paul II in his speech to the UNESCO members at the beginning of his pontificate (1980): "It is fundamental that we realise the priority of ethics over technology, primacy of person over thing, superiority of spirit over matter.
Only the cognition strongly combined with conscience will serve the human. If the people of science are really to help the mankind, they need to be aware of human transcendence towards the world and the divine transcendence towards a human being." A high educational level of the University, which is an achievement of many generations of professors and students, research done at the highest level, combined with the education of the young with regard to moral values, are the priorities of our University.
Relations between science and faith, Christian values and ethics as well as shaping young characters and attitudes are in the scope of the activities of KUL. The memory of our Patron requires from us a constant reflection upon John Paul II´s legacy and teaching.
Facts and Figures
| No. of students: | 19,000* |
| Funding type: | Private (for-profit) |
Master's Programmes
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Thelogy
- Theology in English (M.A.)
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Faculty of Law
- European Studes (M.A.)
Services & Facilities
The sports complex consists of: • Show hall of 1730 m2 area
• gym of 113 m2 area with 20 exercise stands
• fitness room of 113 m2 area
• table tennis room of 86 m2 area
• martial arts room of 130 m2 area
Student Life
Choir of KUL - its repertoire includes great oratorical and cantata forms and vocal as well as vocal and instrumental compositions created by Polish and foreign composers since renaissance until modern times. Each year it gives several dozen of concerts in many cities in Poland and abroad.
University Chaplaincy Choir of KUL - the choir enriches with its singing numerous celebrations of liturgical period. The repertoire covers all the following: modern compositions as well as those dating back to renaissance, baroque, classicism and romanticism, canons from Taizé, African music and negro spiritual.
ITP Theatre - a students’ group putting on stage musicals of their own authorship. The most frequent motifs are connected with the matter of making choices, with continuous vigilance and opening for the divine activity in everyday life. The group often takes inspiration from the great works of the world’s literature, re-discovered and adapted in an original manner.
The Centre for Physical Education and Sports of The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin organize obligatory physical education classes for the University students. The Centre for Physical Education and Sports started its existence in 1952. The lack of university sports halls initiated the construction of the Academic Sports Centre of KUL at Rogó´zno Lake. This was the dreamt place of summer rest for students and sports people of the University Club AZS KUL. Unfortunately, the University financial crisis was the cause of the liquidation of summer camps of physical education as well as of the suspension of mandatory physical education classes. It was the plans to construct the University’s own sports hall at Poczekajka that led University authorities to restore the obligatory physical education classes for full time students of the 1st year at all faculties.
At present, apart from didactic classes in the Centre, there are numerous sections in the following sports disciplines: sports aerobic, badminton, athletics, sports bridge, ergometer, judo, mountain cycling, basketball, skiing, snowboard, football, hand ball, swimming, volleyball, chess, taekwondo, table tennis, tennis, power-lifting, climbing.
The best sections place themselves at top positions in the Polish University Championships, Academic Championships of Poland, and some of them even participate in international competitions. An example of this is the section of power-lifting, under which Student Daniel Grabowski received a golden medal of the European Junior Championships under 23 as well as Women and Men’s under 23 World Championships in Power-Lifting held in 2008. Similar successes have been achieved by men’s tennis team. They finished the European Academic Championships on the 4th position. What is more, two students of tennis section took part in the 1st BEACH TENNIS Polish Championships, winning the silver medal.
The Centre for Physical Education and Sports also organizes a lot of sports events, some of which are the following: • Participation in the 5 Lublin Festival of Science with four projects: “ Sporty Family: exercising is healthy”, “Competition is a beautiful matter: sports and fun are what counts here”, “Bend your body: rhythm… music… dance:, “Physical Education in the style of fitness”;
• The organization of sports events within Kulturalia Student Days, during which students compete in such disciplines as: women’s volleyball, women’s and men’s basketball, women’s and men’s handball, Strong Men Competition or Fitness Marathon;
• Organization of an athletic meeting of 1st-year Students of all Lublin Universities, during which students compete in various sports disciplines.
In the sports complex of KUL there are cyclical finals of Senior Men’s Polish Indoor Football Championships of the Deaf, organized by the Board of “Spartan” Lublin Deaf Sports Club, member of the Polish Deaf Sports Federation.
The Centre for Physical Education and Sports is an excellently equipped sports base. Modern and fully professional equipment of the highest quality, attested with national and international certificates, shows the care for safety, comfort and general satisfaction of the persons using it.
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