Society-politics
Friar Stanisław Tomoń OSSPE, The spokesman of Jasna Góra
THERE WAS NO VIOLENCE AGAINST VIOLENCE THERE
On 7 September this year, during a prayer vigil on the St. Peter’s Square in Rome, the pope Francis appealed for forgiveness, reconciliation and a dialogue in Syria, in the Middle East and all over the world, for a fervent prayer in the intention of peace, and also for the change of hearts, so that everybody would become people of reconciliation and peace. His reflections addressed to believers, was begun by the Holy Father with a biblical description of creation of the world and the human being, where it is said that God did everything good. »
FRANKFURT… THE BIRTH OF THE LIGHT
WITOLD IWAŃCZAK
It has been over 120 years when power plants in the three-phased system created by our Michał Doliwo-Dobrowolski have functioned. Pressing the electric bell button at the door or using a hair-dryer, we also use devices which were invented and constructed by him. The Germans treated him as their compatriot, the Russians state till now, that he was a Russian man by origin, but what do we, Poles, think about it? »
WILL POPE SACRIFICE THE CHURCH OF THE PROVIDENCE?
ARTUR STELMASIAK
If it is possible to maintain the pace of building the Church of Divine Providence in Warsaw, then its first Holy Mass might be celebrated in it in the year 2016 »
HE BUILT A BRIDGE TO THE POLISH EMIGRATION
FR. WIESŁAW WÓJCIK Tchr
Since the beginning of his primate's ministry, cardinal August Hlond has been arguing that 'nobody can be indifferent to the fact that one fourth part of the nation live among foreigners in difficult and abnormal conditions, often doomed to exploitation and poverty' »
Fr. Inf. Ireneusz Skubiś talks with Antonio Gaspari – a chief of the international Catholic informative agency Zenit
HELLO! FATHER BERGOGLIO IS SPEAKING
Anna Przewoźnik talks with sister Karolina Frąk from the Convent of Resurrection Sisters, a director of an orphanage in Buenos Aires, about a surprising telephone call from cardinal Jorge Bergoglio about how one can celebrate one’s birthday twice a year and customs taken from Argentine to Rome by the pope Francis
OUR LADY IS IN THE PILGRIMAGE ALL OVER POLAND
Fr. Paweł Borowski talks with bishop Andrzej Suski about the pilgrimage of the Jasna Góra Image of Our Lady through parishes of the diocese of Toruń
REMINISCENCE OF A BOY FROM BOLONIA
ALINA CZERNIAKOWSKA
An Italian artist and graphics expert from Bolonia, Gianni Bortolotti, told me this story: ‘I was a little boy, we used to run onto an embankment, we used to climb in order to see those soldiers who had freed us. They used to give us chocolate, and cigarettes to the elderly….Oh, God, how beautiful they were! I remember everybody was kneeling for a prayer. My father was taking photos of them. Then we asked – where are you from? They answered that from Poland. »
MAGDALENA KOWALEWSKA
The defense of Europe by the Polish king in 1683 against the Islamic onslaught must still be alive in our memory. Today we should be able to draw conclusions from the Vienna Victory and terroristic attacks – it was taught so by the late prof. Józef Szaniawski »
ARE THE GERMANS RETURNING TO BRAND?
JAN MARIA JACKOWSKI
The Euro zone cannot come out of the structural crisis yet, which is devouring the common currency. Whereas, an adviser of the German government – prof. Kai A. Konrad instead of the ‘official optimism’ orders a cold shower. According to him, the economic situation in the Euro zone is going to get worsened and it will cause a political turmoil. In an interview given to the opinion-making newspaper ‘Die Welt’, he said that the Germans should resign from euro. »
I WOULD LIKE EVERYBODY TO RETURN HOME
Mateusz Wyrwich talks with dr. hab. Krzysztof Szwagrzyk
A HUMAN BEING CAN NOT EXPLAIN IT
Fr. inf. Ireneusz Skubiś talks with Fr. dr. Jerzy Tomziński – a Pauline father, a general of the Pauline Order twice, a prior of Jasna Góra for three cadencies, a witness of entrustment of the Polish Nation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on 8 September 1946