Catholic Church in Poland
RUSSIA DOES NOT WANT A REVOLUTION ANY MORE
Michał Karnowski
It was 7 November 2017, the centre of Moscow and I was standing surrounded by a crowd of people waving red flags with a sickle and hammer, holding portraits of Lenin and Stalin and flags of communist organizations from all over the world. »
IT IS NECESSARY TO ORGANIZE SUCH A MARCH
Fr. Ireneusz Skubiś, Moderator of the ‘Europa Christi’ movement
The day of 11 November has been a festive day for years. This is the anniversary of our return to the independent existence of our country. »
WE DO NOT WANT TO GIVE AWAY TV SETS OR FRIDGES WHERE BREAD IS NECESSARY
Krzysztof Kunert
The title words were said by the metropolitan of Wrocław archbishop Józef Kupny at the end of an action ‘A gift for Aleppo’ during a few months in the Lower Silesia over 1.1 million zlotys were successfully raised to rebuild a Hospital of St. Ludwik in destroyed Aleppo. »
SEPARATION OF THE CROSS FROM JOHN PAUL II ?!
Fr. Ireneusz Skubiś, The Honourable Editor-in-Chief of ‘Niedziela’
It was really shocking not only in Poland but also in whole Europe to hear the decision of the supreme body of administrative judiciary system in France in reference to removing the cross from the monument to John Paul II in the commune Ploermel in Bretania. »
FR. STANISŁAW TOMOŃ OSPPE
The motto ‘Siege of Jasna Góra’ was accompanying the prayer on 4 November this year in our national sanctuary among over thousand men from all over Poland and from abroad within the First Nationwide Pilgrimage of Men. »
Fr. Ireneusz Skubiś, Moderator of the ‘Europa Christi’ movement
The First International Congress of the ‘Europa Christi’ movement has ended. It was a great event, full of thinking and caring for the identity of our continent. It turns out that our suggestions were approved of warmly. »
A DOCUMENT ‘THE YOUNG IN THE NET’ BEING MADE
LD/KAI/CPJG
Tasks of the Church towards the young in the context of the net and new communication technologies were the main issue of a meeting of the Mass Media Council of the Polish Episcopal Conference, which was held on 26 October 2017 at Jasna Góra. »
CRISIS OF EUROPE IS THE CRISIS OF THE TRUTH
Fr. Ireneusz Skubiś, The Honourable Editor-in-Chief of ‘Niedziela’
A lot has already been said about how important the truth is in life. Today one can clearly see the departure from the truth, and some people say about the so-called post-truth. »
Mirosław Piotrowski
In the country at the Sprewa a black-green-yellow coalition is announced, that is, similarly as the flag of Jamaica, and at the beautiful blue Danube – the turquoise-blue one. Particularly colours are the reflection of the political parties which intend to create a new government. »
Fr. Ireneusz Skubiś, The Honourable Editor-in-Chief of ‘Niedziela’
The international congress of the ‘Europa Christi’ movement, which is being held in Poland right now, will surely liberate some initiatives which may contribute to serious reforming reflection on the identity of Europe also in the context of its crisis, which we are witnessing. One of them is a concept of ‘Europa Christi’ clubs which can enliven parish communities and pour new healing strength into the life of many communities. »
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 »