Society-politics
For me the rosary prayer is a light, an inspiration and a certain path for life. And saying it every day is a guarantee for joyful, life-giving relation with Jesus and Our Lady, which results from a deep belief that I am fulfilling God’s will. Finally, the very Mother of Jesus often, in various parts of the world, always asked us to say this prayer. This is a prayer demanding concentration especially that it is necessary to extract many events from Christ and Mary’s life from memory. »
HOW TO BECOME AN APOSTLE OF THE ROSARY?
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FR. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
We appeal to whole Poland to start pray with the rosary for Homeland! This is a chance to save a particular man and the country. Neither UNO, nor the European Union will save us, nor big Germany or Russia. Only God can save us, His great power and the Holy Providence. »
AN EXAMPLE OF HOLINESS EVERY DAY
Bogusława Stanowska – Cichoń talks with Fr. prof. Jan Machniak
GENDER IDEOLOGY IN THE EYES OF SPECIALISTS
At the same time, when in the Sejm there was a debate on the gender ideology, in the Secretariat of Episcopate scientists, doctors, sociologists and lawyers met together in order to discuss the essence and role of this ideology. As the general secretary of the Polish Episcopal Conference - bishop Wojciech Polak emphasized this discussion is not concentrated on the defense of the Church, but on the defense of the man and the society. »
A VISIT ‘AD LIMINA APOSTOLORUM’
WŁODZIMIERZ RĘDZIOCH
In the letter to the Galatians St. Paul writes: ‘…I set off to Jerusalem to meet Kefas, staying at him for fifteen days’ (1.18). In this way we find out about the first visit of St. Paul to St. Peter. Because the expression ‘meet ‘ means here ‘arrive with visit and homage’ – the words of Paul are supposed to emphasize the Peter’s primacy. »
SOLIDARITY WITH THE UKRAINIAN NATION AND RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN UKRAINE
And what next will be with Ukraine? This question is asked by the world looking at the last events in Kiev, which engulfed casualties among protesters. The opposition calls the government for dismissal, and the president Janukowycz for demission. The governing party is accusing the opposition of the escalating the conflict. »
DOES THE GOVERNMENT WANT TO HEAL OR LIQUIDATE THE POLISH COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT?
HENRYK CIOCH
As a senator of the Polish Republic, I do not participate in works of the Special Committee for obvious reasons; the Committee was established by the Sejm in January 2013 to consider projects of two cooperative acts: about cooperatives, a detailed act which is supposed to replace the act of 15 December 2000. »
JAN SZYSZKO
Polish State Forests are a very good example for realization of the concept of balanced development, a concept which is so fashionable in the policy of the European Commission. We were cutting down forests, we gained wood which gave workplaces - and we have more and more forests and more and more wood in these forests. We used to pick up mushrooms, blueberries, we used to hunt and we did not even lose any wild species. »
GENDER IDEOLOGY – A DANGER FOR CIVILIZATION
FR. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
When still at the communist times of Polish People’s Republic, I was visited by priests from Germany, often coming to us with their academic youth, we exchanged various opinions, shared our experiences of our work and conclusions from reflections. During one meeting I asked German priests a question: what do your father say about the war today? After all, they had been generally soldiers of Wehrmacht and had fought on the area of Poland. »
SO AS TO RETURN THEM THE HUMAN DIGNITY
KAZIMIERZ SZAŁATA
Last year we were celebrating the jubilee 60th World Day of the Lepers. The mains celebrations were organized on the Coast of Ivory where God’s servant Raoul Follereau with sister Eugenia, the Superior of the Convent of Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles, started a big battle, whose aim was not only treating the lepers but returning them a normal family and social life. »
FR. HENRYK MISZTAL
Waiting for canonization of John Paul II we are preparing also our souls for deeper understanding the significance of this fact. John Paul II was not only teaching about holiness but he was also implementing it in his whole life. He felt obliged himself to achieve it and set it as an essential task for all Christians, including the laymen »
CATHOLIC SOLIDARITY IS OUR TASK
Fr. Ireneusz Skubiś talks with archbishop Wacław Depo - the metropolitan of Częstochowa, the chairman of the Council for Mass Media of the Polish Episcopal Conference
FR. JÓZEF KRUKOWSKI
In Poland the latest events in the sphere of relations between the State and the Church, shocking the public opinion include unfounded interference of the General Inspector of Data Protection into inner matters of the Catholic Church. For, by making his decisions and acting under the pressure of fighting atheists, he is trying to force parish priests to behave under their dictation when preparing documents in parish books concerning departures from the Church »
MIDWIVES DO NOT WANT TO ASSIST IN ABORTIONS
DOROTA ZAŃKO
I am a midwife. I should help a new life come to the world, and save the conceived life, not participate in abortion. For me, as a woman and a mother of two children it is a tragedy – says Agata Rejman. – We informed the director of the hospital together with my colleagues, that according to our conscience and our rights we do not want to participate in this type of operations. »