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
Katarzyna Woynarowska
New regulations concerning adoption of children and the so-called substitute care start to oblige from January 2012. The authors of the law are certain that new legal solutions will shorten the time of waiting for a child. Children will not spend years in orphanages, and families, which find it hard to cope with their difficult life, will find their new ally. »
Euro-zone takes advantage but Poland pays
Mariusz Książek talks to the Euro-deputy Konrad Szymański about the dangers for Poland connected with the crisis in the European Union and how our country should find itself in the new European Union conditions.
Discrimination of the shale gas?
Wiesława Lewandowska talks to the euro-deputy Konrad Szymański
The Church - the youth of the humankind
Alicja Dołowska talks to Archbishop Henryk Hoser SAC, the Ordinary of the diocese of Warsaw and Praque
On the threshold of the year 2012
Fr. Ireneusz Skubiś
Here, somehow unexpectedly and more quickly than last year, we have found ourselves in the year 2012. Time will show - what year it will be for us, our family and our society. »
Tusk for EU like Gierek towards USSR
Czesław Ryszka
The Polish presidency in the European Union and also the activity of Jerzy Buzek as the chairman of the European Parliament finished with the end of the year. Both missions in the pro-governmental media were summarized as a Polish success. »
The Church calls for solidarity
Fr. Ireneusz Skubiś
I'm still impressed by the visit of Pope Benedict XVI in Benin which was beautiful but difficult, even because of the climate, for 84-year-old Pope in the pilgrimage to this African continent. »
Polish Karmel on the Asian steppe
From the Kazakhstan steppe, full of silence, covered with the first snow, subjected to God, we connect with you, remaining in the communion of hearts. How deep was faith in God and the care of Mary over those who had come here before we did. The faith let them survive the nightmares of exile, sufferings which they underwent, when the totalitarian regime took them by force from their Homeland and deported them here, to Kazakhstan, called yellow Siberia, to unimaginably inhuman conditions and deep sadness. »
Dear Older and Younger Readers of the Catholic weekly 'Sunday'
Fr. Ireneusz Skubiś
Christmas is the time full of our deepest desires and hope. The biggest desire of the Christ's Church is to be recognized very well. But it will not be done when we base only on what is said about the Church by media. »
What next with Polish forests?
Andrzej Tarwid
State Forests are national value. So, we should not treat them as an ordinary enterprise, which can be priced and privatized. This attitude threatens with a catastrophe - specialists warn. »
Upbringing under the sign of love
Priest Mirosław Melizner talks to Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, the prefect for the Congregation of the Catholic Education.
Children in Catholic families experience Christmas very intensely. Decorating a Christmas tree, presents from Santa Claus, Christmas Eve supper, especially sharing the wafer, preceded by reading a biblical fragment, singing carols, and then the Midnight Mass, Nativity play, Christmas pastoral visits - this all creates a specific atmosphere of family warmth. »
The Votive offerings of the Nation, sewed with jewels, meteorites and hearts
Zofia Rozanow
It has been a year since the solemn celebrations of the 100th anniversary of re- coronation of the Picture of Our Lady of Częstochowa, when in 1909 after robbing the Wonderful Image of papal crowns, endowed by Klemens XI in 1717 (also a pearly dress), a year later new crowns were endowed by Holy Father Pius X, friendly to Polish matters. »
Archbishop Józef Michalik
In the Church, since its beginning, there have been synods, Vatican councils and different kinds of initiatives in dioceses and parishes, which aim at bringing bishops closer to the faithful and raising the awareness that everybody is responsible for the Church. »
Franciszek Stefczyk - a candidate for altars
Fr. Ireneusz Skubiś
In the first days of December this year, I was lucky to walk in Lvov. I visited the Lvov Łyczakowski Cemetery, the Lvov Eaglets Cemetery, the church of St. Maria Magdalena and the Lvov cathedral where I celebrated the Holy Mass and preached a sermon. »
Wiesława Lewandowska
The history of a Polish fairy tale about shale gas is going to be tempestuous. What will the 'gas revolution' bring to us? »
