Society-politics
GRZEGORZ GÓRNY
In 1992 the Nobel Prize in the sphere of economy was awarded to an American professor Gary Becker – an inventor of the theory of social capital. In his works he proved that the basis of capital are not material base, but a man, whereas economic development and social expansion depend mainly on a strong position of family, which is the most valuable social capital of a country. »
MICHAŁ KARNOWSKI
I may not be wrong if I assume that most Readers of ‘Niedziela’ share concern with me about the fates of Poland and see an urgent need of a big change. Even if we are personally successful, children are healthy, we have work or pension and we can somehow live in a good way, the situation of the national community is worrying. »
FRANC AFTER THE OLD EXCHANGE RATE
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The news that the government will not leave people, who pay off their loans in the Swiss Francs and who were hit by the abolition of the rigid rate of the Swiss euro currency and the leap of quotations – arouses mixed feelings. »
A MATTER OF POLES, A MATTER OF POLAND
MATEUSZ WYRWICH
On the Eastern border nearly fifty thousand people live who admit to their Polish origin. About five hundred of them own the Pole’s Charter. Facing the war, about a hundred people arrived in Poland. Other two hundred people declared their willingness to arrive in Poland »
MAREK CZACHOROWSKI
The New Year was opened in the EU with the message that it would be permitted to buy ‘an emergency pill’ out of a prescription, in case of suspected ‘unwanted pregnancy’. It was decided so by officials of the European Commission, dealing with pro-health policy. »
FR. WIESŁAW WÓJCIK TChr
Migration became a widely-spreading phenomenon in the contemporary world. It comprises both origin countries of immigrants and transit or target countries »
VOCATION OF A WOMAN REACHES ITS FULL ESSENCE
BY FR. ROBERT GROHS
On the occasion of the Immaculate Conception I would like to remind about the unusual message of blessed pope Paul VI, which he addressed to women on 8 December 1965, 50 years after proclaiming this message, try, Dear Ladies to make a personal and community summary, how you live according to this message. »
CZESŁAW RYSZKA
In a democratic country belonging to the EU and NATO, one can find out who won the elections »
JOANNA OPERACZ
What could happen if there was contraception on a remote control – a button would be pressed and a woman would become infertile? Such an invention already exists. It can appear on the market in four years’ time »
Wiesława Lewandowska talks with a colonel Andrzej Kowalski about spies, agents, illegal refugees and using a threat towards the country for political-propaganda purposes
OH, HOW THEY ARE TORMENTING MEDIA!
MICHAŁ KARNOWSKI, The author is a publicist of the weekly ‘wSieci’ and the portal wPolityce.pl
I enjoy reading descriptions of situations of media market in Russia on pages of Polish pro-governmental newspapers. They are logical and uncompromised. Correspondents and commentators cleverly catch key elements such as actions of a market regulator, voluntarily using punishments and warnings in order to pacify rests of opposition or independence. »
MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI
The prime minister of Great Britain David Cameron, after the last summit meeting of the European Council ended, said: ‘I am simply furious’. During debates he found out that the EU statistic government Eurostat had made correction of calculations of membership fees of all EU countries, which pay 1 per cent of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to the EU budget. »
Île de la Cité is a place of particular remembrance – remembrance of Paris, France, Europe. Remembrance inscribed mainly in a stone, starting with the cathedral Notre Dame and Sainte-Chapelle. The rank of a real symbol of the city belongs to the Zero Point situated in front of the cathedral, from which distances to all towns in France and Europe are calculated. »
INTEGRATION DOES NOT MEAN ASSIMILATION
LISTENED TO BY ANNA PRZEWOŹNIK
During a Vigil Night at Jasna Góra, on 17 and 18 October, bishop Wiesław Lechowicz, a delegate of the Polish Episcopate for Pastoral Ministry of Polish Emigration, in an interview with ‘Niedziela’, presented intentions with which he had arrived to the throne of Our Lady »
CZESŁAW RYSZKA
Gradually we are being tamed with degenerations in many ways, so that they would only serve to a fight with marriage as a relationship of one woman and one man »