Society-politics
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE IRREPLACEABLE
ALINA CZERNIAKOWSKA
Winter is over. The early spring is smiling with the sun, bird’s singing and hope for a better and happy life. Everyone is busy with his own life. Tired, in a hurry we sit down in front of TV, computer screens, we flip through glossy magazines which is easy and fun. It may be possible, but from 10 April 2010 everything became different, and, first of all – we are different, although we are not aware of it. It looks as if we lost the ground beneath our feet and found it difficult to keep balance. »
CZESŁAW RYSZKA
Elections for the European Parliament will be held on 25 May 2014. Poland in the next 5-year-old term of office will be represented by 51 euro-deputies in the parliament of 766 members. I do not have to add how important the current elections are because they are going to be held in the extremely difficult moment: the whole free world is looking how the European Union will behave towards aggression of Russia against Ukraine. »
Wiesława Lewandowska talks with dr. Piotr Naimski about replacing tanks with pipelines, unspecified visions of the European ‘energetic union’ and particular Polish neglect
Fr. Ireneusz Skubiś talks with Fr. Jan Góra OP about incredible meetings with John Paul II, a funny story about casting the papal hand and about fascination with the Saint
KRZYSZTOF CZABAŃSKI
Media inform about perfidious ways of deceiving elderly and helpless people. There are many such cases. I think it is high time suitable state institutions looked at this problem. Certainly, is criminals deceive – let me name them as – the private ones, wheedling money for a grandson or using a different method, using hatred and generosity of elderly people, it is enough when police, procurators and courts are dealing with such bad people. However, the matter is getting more complicated when criminals come to action, somehow the official one, in ‘white collars’. »
MARIA FORTUNA-SUDOR
Books devoted to life and work of John Paul II, films showing his life and also his realization of ideas to which he served, had another form of reminiscing the Polish Pope, added by creators. It is the opera musical entitled: ‘Karol Wojtyła. A real story’. »
SHE GIVES A TESTIMONY OF JOHN PAUL II
URSZULA BUGLEWICZ
The management of the Academic Society of the Catholic University of Lublin, granted the annual reward named Fr. Giles Radziszewski – the founder and the first rector of the Catholic University of Lublin – to sister prof. Zofia Józefa Zdybicka USJK, as a recognition of the whole academic achievements in the spirit of the Christian humanism »
POLISHNESS AS A MOTOR FOR PONTIFICATE
GRZEGORZ POLAK
We received an excellent present for the canonization of John Paul II from the Paulines who had edited a Polish biography of the Holy Father in Polish, written by an Italian historian and publicist Andrea Riccardo. His work should be placed on a par with the exemplary monograph by George Weigl, considered as the best one so far. The work of Riccardi will make us verify the opinion that we know nearly everything about John Paul II. It is impossible to get to know the work of the Polish Pope without reading this book. »
POPE FRANCIS MET WITH ELIZABETH II
(Catholic Informative Agency)
On 3 April 2014 the Holy Father met with Elizabeth II, who was being accompanied by her spouse, prince of Edinburgh, Philip. This meeting took place in an aula of Paul VI. There was also the British ambassador of the Apostolic See Nigel Baker. The visit of Queen Elizabeth II in Vatican lasted for about half an hour, including a private talk of the Holy Father with the Queen – 17 minutes. »
THE WORST TRUTH IS BETTER THAN A LIE
Artur Stelmasiak talks with Dorota Skrzypek – a widow of the chairman of the National Bank of Poland Sławomir Skrzypek
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CHANGE SEXES
KRYSTYNA PAWŁOWICZ
The Polish government supports people with distorted sexual identity, it comes out with its own proposal of the procedure of the so-called sexes change, exceeds its public competences »
SORRY, PRIME MINISTER, BUT YOU ARE A LIAR….
MATEUSZ WYRWICH
On 19 March 2014, in the Sejm, a protest of parents started, aimed against the deception of the prime minister who had announced five years before that he would implement beneficial financial changes for parents and carers of disabled children. Despite his promises, he did not keep his word. And although he met with parents, the suggestion which he had made, significantly diverged from those which he had originally declared and renewed several times »
ABOUT PROPER UNDERSTANDING THE INSEPARABILITY OF MARRIAGE
FR. WOJCIECH GÓRALSKI
It is doubtless that the Church has a duty to care about its all believers – also those who after contracting their canonic (ecclesiastical) marriages have got divorced and then they entered into new marriage, certainly the civil one. However, there is a question: how far can this care reach – till the moment of allowing such people for receiving the Holy Communion? »