Society-politics
PAPAL CONCERN ABOUT MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
ARCHBISHOP JÓZEF MICHALIK
First, I would like note the fragment of the quoted message concerning preparation for marriage. This is a great care of our Church and pope Francis who, in his teaching often emphasized that we have to oppose to the culture of temporality. »
Fr. Stanisław Tomoń OSPPE, the spokesman of Jasna Góra
ARTUR STELMASIAK
Cooperative Credit Unions earned over 250 million zlotys in 2013. – If he were not harassed all the time, our result would be much better – says Rafał Matusiak, the chairman of the National Credit Unions »
FR. WALDEMAR WESOŁOWSKI
- I returned to the paradise of my childhood. Therefore, I feel here like at home – said cardinal Joachim Meisner from Koln during the Holy Mass celebrated on 15 February 2014 in Mary’s Basilica in Krzeszów. In this place he was celebrating his 80th birthday and the jubilee of the 25 years of his archbishopric ministry in Koln. Pope Francis accepted his resignation from this function because of his retiring age »
WOJCIECH KĘDER
If one wants to influence the course of international events, first it is necessary to fight for the subjectivity of one’s country in the international arena and an effective defence of its interests »
FR. KRZYSZTOF PAWLINA
Hatred, anger, lack of forgiveness – these are pains hidden deeply. Although they are not visible, they often come out from hide imperceptibly. »
JOANNA SZCZERBIŃSKA
Authors of this book, unusual in many respects – Agnieszka Gracz and Adam Sosnowski – last year they were standing in the rain at the Basilica of St. Peter. Together with other journalists from other countries, they were waiting in suspense for the result of the conclave. The new pope fascinated them at the moment of appearing in the Loggia of Blessings. »
Wiesława Lewanowska talks with a parliamentarian Kazimierz M. Ujazdowski about the abuse of parliamentarian law, lack of Sejm control and lulling the public opinion
ACTIONS IN RUSSIA THREATEN THE SAFETY IN EUROPE
(editors)
The Federation Council, the Higher Chamber of the Russian Parliament, on 1 March 2014 allowed for using the Military Forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin addressed this request for such a consent to the Chamber. The request was supported by 90 members of the Federation Council, that is, everybody who had been registered during the extraordinary meeting of the Chamber. »
KATARZYNA WOYNAROWSKA
Even a border was defined. It is not on a map but it is perceivable from a closer perspective, in small towns or villages. The border between poor and rich Poland. It was marked on the line Elbląg – Krosno. On the right there is the so-called eastern wall, in which the income per one inhabitant is much smaller than on the other side of the border. »
CZESŁAW RYSZKA
The events in Ukraine have obscured the significance of the Second Meeting of the IV Congress of Law and Justice which was held in Warsaw on 15 February 2014. It had a programmatic character and its issues were: health, work, family. These are three key problems of Poles to solve or: three biggest dangers today with which the government of the Civic Platform and the Polish People’s Alliance cannot cope. »
DEFENCE OF DOCTOR’S CONSCIENCE
ARTUR STELMASIAK
Conscience is an element of the human nature which reminds us about the superiority of moral law over the statutory law – emphasized archbishop Henryk Hoser, the chairman of the Experts’ Team of the Polish Episcopal Conference for Bioethics. »
FOUNDATION ‘OUR SUNDAY’ HAS BEEN STARTED
Anna Cichobłazińska talks with Fr. Ireneusz Skubiś – the editor in chief of ‘Sunday’
WIESŁAWA LEWANDOWSKA
The State Forests have been praised for 90 years. Because they could represent the Polish statehood and be the symbol of the independent economy in the Second Polish Republic »