Culture
KATARZYNA WOYNAROWSKA
The reverse trend begins. People from the metropolis flee to distant suburbs, to smaller cities or to the countryside. Those who run away claim that there is something inauthentic and artificial in a big city: a multiplicity that blends into one »
EWA OSET
Staff shortages, resigning from religion education by students, limiting hours of to one hour a week in some schools….We asked an expert Ewa Oset about the reasons for these problems and attempts of solving them »
STUDENTS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT
Andrzej Tarwid talks with Dariusz Piontkowski, a minister of national education, about manipulations of opponents of education reform, double year of students, salaries of teachers and the role of the local government in the education reform »
MARCIN MYSŁEK
When we are in Parma situated on the half way between Milan and Bologna, we can give ourselves both a feast for eyes and tongue. After seeing beautiful frescoes in the local cathedral, we have a perfect occasion to get to know secrets of production a king among many kinds of cheese served on Parma tables a long time before revealing his painting talent by the master Correggio »
APPEARING OF THE AUTHOR OF ‘CONFLAGRATION’
SŁAWOMIR BŁAUT
It has been 130 years since Zofia Kossak was born in August, the month which is inscribed in the national calendar together with the tragic date of the Warsaw Uprising outbreak »
NASA ROCKETS WITH POLISH DRIVE
WITOLD IWAŃCZAK
Wojciech Rostafiński, a soldier of the National Army and participant of the Warsaw Uprising, became a cooperator of secret NASA projects for years after the war. His surname was placed in the Alley of the Merit during the Space research »
CZESŁAW NIEMEN – IT SOUNDS AS PRIDE
This year it has been the 15th death anniversary of this prominent artist of the Polish pop music. Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński said: Stones will not remember us if we do not remember about those who are not alive among us »
ANDRZEJ MIKULSKI
Mosaics by Oleg Ulyanov in the chapel Redemptopris Mater in Vatican »
UNFINISHED HOLY MASSES IN WOŁYŃ
BOGDAN KĘDZIORA
On the bloody Sunday, that is, 11 July 1943, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army attacked 99 towns in Wołyń, in order to do slaughter on believers and priests who gathered in churches for religious services »
KONRAD LUDWICKI
The first signs of romantism in Poland began to appear before the year 1795. The final loss of independence influenced the need of changing the role of literature and national art at all. »
GRZEGORZ POLAK
In the ‘Guardian’ Kate Maltby criticized the British princely couple that before their recent visit in Poland they had participated in ‘whitening the current government of authoritative tendencies’. For whom it is terrible, it is. Everybody has a right to evaluate, also a journalist. »
THE PRINCELY BUT ORDINARY FAMILY
IWONA FLISIKOWSKA
The visit of prince William and princess Kate will undoubtedly remain in our memory and will be inscribed in the modern history »
JAN ŻARYN
The action ‘Vistula’, carried out by the People’s Polish Army in spring 1947, was condemned by the parliament of the Third Republic of Poland and it was a right thing. »
MOTHER OF PEACE RETURNS TO UKRAINE
ANNA CICHOBŁAZIŃSKA
They arrived from Czerwonograd in Ukraine, in order to receive a gift of the Pauline Fathers for their parish. They felt distinguished that the copy of the Miraculous Image of Our Lady of Częstochowa would find its home just in their country. The copy of the Image was passed over at Jasna Góra on 14 June 2017. »