Józefa Maria Hennelowa (1 April 1925 – 22 August 2020) was a Polish publicist, journalist, columnist, Catholic intellectual, and politician.

[1] During World War II, she joined the women's wing of the Gray Ranks, an underground resistance group opposed to the German occupation, and secretly taught in Vilnius.

[2] In 1984, Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Catholic priest associated with Solidarity, was assassinated by agents from the Ministry of Public Security, the country's secret police.

[1] In 1989, as Communist rule began to wane, Hennelowa and her husband, Jacek Hennel [pl], joined the Citizens' Movement for Democratic Action (ROAD), a short-lived political party.

[1] When ROAD split, she and her faction joined Tadeusz Mazowiecki's new Democratic Union (UD), where she became one the party's founding members in 1990.

[1] Hennelowa belonged to Amnesty International from 1990 to 1996, the Association "Polish Community", also from 1990 until 1996, and the Social Committee for the Restoration of Kraków's Monuments [pl] (SKOZK) until 2008.