Catholic Church in Poland
A STRONG WOMAN FROM ‘HOME OF PEACE’
IWONA FLISIKOWSKA
One of the most important gifts which we can receive is find our place in life and our vocation »
Europe does not know where it is going
Artur Stelmasiak
The Old Continent is organizing its life as if God did not exist – said cardinal Robert Sarah from Vatican who was a guest at the First International Congress of the ‘Europa Christi’ movement »
I DID NOT KNOW FR. MAKSYMILIAN
Artur Stelmasiak talks with Adam Woronowicz – a performer of the main role in the film ‘Two crowns’
Firstly I am not a ‘saint’ actor, secondly I do not plan it and I do not know whose role I will play in the future. And as for these two saints, history has somehow come a full circle. »
AN ITALIAN JOURNALIST REMINISCES TRAGEDIES OF ‘HIS’ POLAND
Włodzimierz Rędzioch talks with Luigi Geninazzi
In the 70s of the last century the Italian market of weeklies was dominated by two magazines: ‘L’Espresso’ and ‘Panorama’ which did not represent the Catholic part of the Italian society. For this reason a group of dynamic journalists belonging to a movement ‘Communion and Liberation’, established by Fr. Luigi Giussani »
BETWEEN CZĘSTOCHOWA AND POMPEII
Fr. Jarosław Krzewicki talks with archbishop Salvatora Pennacchio, an apostolic nuncio in Poland, and archbishop Tommaso Caputo from Pompeii about a remedy to the crisis of Europe, about phenomenon of sanctuaries in Pompeii and at Jasna Góra and about Mary’s religiousness among Poles »
Lidia Dudkiewicz talks with Fr. Inf. Ireneusz Skubiś – a founder and moderator of the ‘Europa Christi’ movement about challenges which European politicians are facing, the crisis of European identity and hope for widely open door of Europe to Christ »
ŁUKASZ KRZYSZTOFKA
How and with what main values to support the Polish family effectively? What is the influence of the family on other areas of life? How to strengthen married couples? These issues were the subject of discussions on 27 September 2017 among participants of the National Debate on Family. »
THERE IS NO SOLIDARITY WITHOUT LOVE
GRZEGORZ GÓRNY
If we today, after many years, were to point to a person who embodied ideas of Solidarity in himself the best, it would be Fr. Jerzy Popiełuszko »
Wojciech Dudkiewicz talks with Lech Dokowicz – a film director, a screenwriter and a film producer, a co-creator of the initiative ‘Rosary to the borderlines’ »
WEDDING JOURNEY FROM FRANCE TO JASNA GÓRA
AGNIESZKA GOLAŃSKA-BAULT
Jean-Jacques and his wife Agnes Le Floch have walked over 2350 km during 103 days this year, in order to come to worship Our Lady in the miraculous icon at Jasna Góra. Being at the age of 70 and 68 respectively, they wanted to thank God for their happy life in this way. »
Włodzimierz Rędzioch
Włodzimierz Rędzioch talks with Marek Popiełuszko – a nephew of beatified Fr. Jerzy Popiełuszko about the Foundation named Fr. Jerzy Popiełuszko ‘Good’ »
FR. TOMASZ TLAŁKA OSPPE
Over 18 thousand paper photos, nearly 14 thousand ones sent via internet – each of them with an attached commitment given to Our Lady, about 30 thousand spiritual gifts given to Mary through the application ‘A Diamond from the Crown’. All this as a gift for the ‘Alive Crown of Mary’. »
THE HEART OF POLAND BEATS HERE
Archbishop Wacław Depo speaks about the significance of Jasna Góra
On the occasion of the feast of Blessed Mary the Virgin of Częstochowa attributable on 26 August, archbishop Wacław Depo addressed a pastoral letter to believers of the archdiocese of Częstochowa, dated on 8 August 2017, entitled: ‘Our Queen, Mary of Częstochowa!’. »
ANNA WYSZYŃSKA
‘Mary as our Queen’ – this was the motto of the participants of the 306th Warsaw Walking Pilgrimage who has set off from the capital city to Jasna Góra this year. About 5 thousand pilgrims set off for a pilgrimage, but a lot of people joined during further stages. »
WITOLD GADOWSKI
A lot of observers of the latest history of Poland cannot understand today why in Poland, after the years 1989, no strong Christian-Democratic Party was established, why beside ‘Our Journal’ – any other strong Catholic journal is edited here, at the Vistula, which would take away readers from ‘Electoral newspaper’. »