Dear Readers of 'Niedziela',
The Archdiocese of Czestochowa has published the Catholic Weekly 'Niedziela' since 1926. At first the circulation of 'Niedziela' was small and distributed only in the diocese till the year 1939. During World War II the weekly was not published. In 1945, after the war it was distributed all over Poland but appeared till 1953 because the communist authorities suspended its publication. The break lasted till 1981. During the period of Solidarity the bishop of Czestochowa succeeded in re-establishing 'Niedziela'. Since then it has been published as the biggest Catholic weekly in Poland and Central-Eastern Europe. 'Niedziela' is read in Poland, Europe and America - practically on every continent. It has an electronic version and read in 111 countries worldwide. For several months the Russian edition, as a summary of our articles, has been published once a month. more...
Fr Ireneusz Skubis
Stepan Bandera – a new symbol of Ukraine?
Marek Jurek
President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko awarded to Stepan Bandera the title of Hero of Ukraine. Bandera was the leader of OUN-B (Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists – the fraction of Bandera’s supporters), which was the military wing of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. »
Fr Henryk Misztal
bThe Year 2010 will probably bring the expected beatifications. One can ask about the motive of our awaiting for these beatifications and the reason for the cult of saints in the Church. »
Czeslaw Ryszka
This is the title of the large album about Jan Kobylanski, the President of the Union of Polish Associations and Organisation in Latin America (USOPAL) written by Prof. Jerzy Robert Nowak. »
Cardinal Stanislaw Nagy, SCJ
I mean the recent official announcement that the Holy Father promulgated the decree on the heroicity of the virtues of the Servant of God John Paul II, the Polish Pope. »
Fr Ireneusz Skubis talks to Fr Andrzej Madej, OMI, a missionary in Turkmenistan.
Evangelisation in Asia is an important subject for the contemporary Church. So many people there do not know Christ. Today thanks to the electronic media one can make an accelerated evangelisation. »
My testimony about the year 1956
Fr Ireneusz Skubis
On 26 August 1956, together with some one million pilgrims, I was in the commons at the foot of the Jasna Gora hill to participate in an extraordinary event, which was the Vows of Jasna Gora made by the Polish society to Our Lady. »
Archbishop Jozef Michalik
In this year’s first meeting with the Readers of ‘Niedziela’ I would like to share the experiences that encouraged me during the gathering of families in Madrid, initiated by Cardinal Rouco Varela and the Neocatechumenal Way with its founder Kiko Argüello, a few days ago. »
Reality is also part of the Church’s life
Fr Ireneusz Skubis
You need not convince anyone how important the media are. It is even said that only what the media show exists. If the media do not speak about someone or something it means that the person or the thing is not important, practically non-existing. »
The world must show compassion for migrants’ fates
Lidia Dudkiewicz talks to Fr Wieslaw Wojcik, TChr, Director of the Institute for the Pastoral Care of Migrants, connected with the Society of Christ Fathers to Polish Migrants.
Fr Ignacy Rekawek, custodian of the Jasna Gora Shrine and Fr Stanislaw Tomon, Jasna Gora Press Office.
About 3,500,000 pilgrims came to the Jasna Gora Shrine in the year 2009. – 167 national pilgrimages gathered 867,298 people. »
Wlodzimierz Redzioch talks to Professor Massimo Introvigne, the founder and director of the Italian Centre for Studies on New Religions.
I am not a literary critic but as a sociologist of religion I am interested in the fact that many people regard Dan Brown’s books both as novels and texts showing historical truths. Brown himself uses this ambiguity. »
Such children have no right to live?
Kazimierz Szalata
This year 50 years has passed since the epoch-making discovery made by the French physician and scientist, co-founder of the Pontifical Academy for Life, a friend of John Paul II, Prof. Jérôme Lejeune. »
Mateusz Wyrwich
In 2009 we celebrated the 70th anniversary of the origin of the Polish Underground State. So far this organisation has been unique in the world. No other state has functioned in such a form yet. The activities of the Polish Underground State ended in 1945. After the Soviets had entered the territory of Poland many representatives of the Polish Underground State were arrested. »
Fr Ireneusz Skubis talks to Br Wojciech Golonka, the Provincial of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
The white rabat (collar) symbolises the open book of the Gospel… I entered the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in July 1982, so 27 years ago. »
Fr Ksawery Sokolowski
Most Christians do not negate the fact of Christ’s presence in the Blessed Sacrament. You cannot be a Catholic and do not believe that at the moment of the consecration, when the priest says in the name of Christ the words, ‘This is my Body. »
Culture of feasts and daily life
Fr Ireneusz Skubis
We all do remember the unique, one of its kind, meeting which we describe as ‘Christmas Eve’. This meeting has its own traditions in Polish families. Nowadays our relatives often come to their homes from distant lands. »
Kazimierz Szalata
True peace is born in people’s hearts. This fundamental truth shone in the life of the great humanist of the 20th century Raoul Follereau who during the cruel World War II took the initiative to establish the World Day of Peace – special time that would let each man realise that we were called to build creatively relationships between people. »