Catholic Church in Poland
ALINA CZERNIAKOWSKA
While talking with people, one can feel joy, hope, content with a quick action of the new government, and we also became willing to cooperate, help with repairing the Polish Republic. The feeling of responsibility and national identity revived. »
CHURCH, DESPITE NOT BELONGING TO ANY POLITICAL PARTIES, IS NOT ANTI-SOCIAL
FR. PAWEŁ RYTEL-ANDRIANIK, THE SPOKESMAN OF THE POLISH EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE
If it had not been for the baptism, there would not be the Polish country nor Poles, nor our great history or culture – these words, said by archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, the chairperson of the Polish Episcopal Conference, throw a light onto the hardly known aspect of the Baptism of Poland. »
WHO DOES NOT LIKE POLISH TIDYING?
CZESŁAW RYSZKA
We will see soon that the general tidying was necessary and is carried out well »
DEAR MR MARTIN SCHULTZ, MdEP, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
+WIESŁAW MERING, BISHOP OF WŁOCŁAWEK
I read your opinion about the ‘coup’ in Poland with much surprise and outrage. I really know my country better than you: I have lived in my Homeland for 70 years; I assure you that the election of the President and the new Government in Poland does not prove the lack of democracy. »
A COMMITTEE OF DEFENDING PRIVILEGES
JAN MARIA JACKOWSKI
Today it is time to build Poland of our dreams »
YEAR 2016- THE JUBILEE YEAR OF THE 1050TH ANNIVERSARY OF POLAND BAPTISM
CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
The Polish Seym unanimously decided that the year 2016 is the Jubilee Year of the 1050th anniversary of Poland baptism. ‘This act had a decisive importance for the process of uniting Polish generations under the reign of the Piasts and forming Christian identity of our nation’ – says the provision. It was supported by 413 MPs. »
The Meeting In Gniezno will be held from 11 to 13 March 2016. Its three-day program will consist of lectures of important people of social, public and religious life from Poland and abroad, as well as discussion panels, workshops, concerts, exhibitions and liturgical events. »
BISHOPS FROM POLAND AND GERMANY TOGETHER AT JASNA GÓRA
ELŻBIETA KRAWCZYK
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of letters exchange about reconciliation from 1965, Polish and German bishops met together at Jasna Góra on 22 November 2015. They were celebrating the Holy Mass together in the Chapel of the Miraculous Image of Our Lady in the intention of reconciliation and peace in the world. »
MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI
In our country the right to set up wiretapping belongs to even 10 services, including Police, Inner Security Agency, Central Office of Bribery and also organs of treasury control »
A JOYFUL PRIEST, A FAITHFUL SON OF ST. FRANCIS
FR. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
It was like a bolt from the blue for us to find out about the death of Fr. Jan Sochocki, a Capuchin, whose friendly person in a brown cassock girded with a white rope, with a rosary, we still have in our eyes »
THEY ARE BEHIND BARS BECAUSE THEY BOUGHT LAND
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With complete ruthlessness – that is, with the usage of handcuffs, often at homes, in the eyes of terrified families, or unexpectedly, while working on a field – 11 farmers from Pyrzyce in the province of Szczecin were arrested. »
ARTUR STELMASIAK
The starting bishops' synod about family is to be attended by three bishops from Poland and a married couple of the Pulikowscy. What postulates did they go to Rome with? »
ALINA CZERNIAKOWSKA
In Poland we have many important dates, anniversaries, in every month, but also these August-September ones do not allow us to forget about them, even if they are the most impregnated on Polishness. »
ARTUR STELMASIAK
A twitter action of Polish bishops has begun. In the Week of Upbringing, lasting from 13 to 19 September, it was possible to follow their writings on the social portal. »
WOJCIECH DUDA-DUDKIEWICZ
The main purpose of the first official visit of Andrzej Duda to Germany, has been achieved. The president was supposed to meet chiefs of the German country and the government, make personal relations with them and create a good atmosphere for further talks »