Society-politics
Włodzimierz Rędzioch talks with Paul Badde
MATEUSZ WYRWICH
Two months after the end of the Second World War, in July 1945, about 40 thousand soldiers of the Red Army entered onto the area of three districts of today’s Podlasie province. Over 7 thousand people connected with the underground were arrested, including a few dozen pregnant women and a dozen of underage boys and girls. Around 1500 people have not returned to their houses till today. »
Fr. Marek Łuczak
The latest investigations of the Statistics Institute of the Catholic Church has been convincing us not for the first time that the Polish Catholicism is strong. Although there are no doubts about the existence of secularisation trends in the Polish society, they are taking place in a very slow pace, not to say a creeping one. »
‘THE APOSTLE OF THE WEEKLY ‘SUNDAY’ PASSED AWAY
Fr. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
On Sunday, the 10™ of June 2012 we received the news about the death of the prelate priest Marian Wiewiorowski, a parish priest of the parish church of under the invocation of Bishop St. Nicholas in Gomulin. It was very shocking information to me. On 18 May this year we still met at home of the Grey Ursulines Sisters in Lodz at a meeting of people who had been born on the birthday of Pope John Paul II. »
ARTUR STELMASIAK
A young American woman caused quite much havoc in banks. Her online appeal met with the respond from nearly 700 thousand people, and 4.5 milliard dollars disappeared from commercial bank accounts. »
POLISH OR RUSSIAN RAISON D’ETAT
JÓZEF SZANIAWSKI
Jan Matejko – the most prominent Polish artist stated: ‘Art must not be separated from love of homeland’ (...). Art is connected with love to the country in God’s love’. It is important, wise and beautiful statement surely refers to the collections of many museums, but especially to the Warsaw National Museum »
URSZULA BUGLEWICZ
The Polish supremacy of the Knights’ Order of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem (OESSH) chose Lublin as a place for its investiture in 2012, that is, liturgical celebrations connected with accepting new members – five knights and one lady and a priest. The solemn Holy Mass with the ceremonies on investiture was celebrated in the Lublin arch-cathedral on 9 June under the leadership of Cardinal Józef Glemp, a senior primate, and also a great prior of the Polish supremacy. »
THE EUROPEAN APPEAL CONCERNING THE TELEVISION TRWAM
ARTUR STELMASIAK, Brussels
During a public hearing in Brussels there were discussions about the dangers against the freedom of speech in our country. Thanks to it, the matter of the Television Trwam became a European litmus-paper of democracy in Poland. »
SAYS F. TADEUSZ RYDZYK CSsR
Just after the public hearing in the matter of the Television Trwam in the European Parliament in Brussels, the ‘Sunday’ was the first Polish weekly to hear lively impressions of F. Tadeusz Rydzyk CSsR about this meeting. We publish a few long pronouncements of the director of the most popular Catholic radio station, which were heard by Fr. Paweł Rozpiątkowski. »
HOW CAN PAPER BE CHANGED INTO FRESH WATER
Lidia Dudkiewicz talks with Fr. Dr. Kazimierz Kurek SDB – participating in organizing the action ‘Waste paper for missions’, whose purpose is to gain money for building a well in the Republic of the Southern Sudan
Wieława Lewandowska talks with Dr. Zbigniew Kuźmiuk about a strange weakness of a zloty, fat banks and allegedly thin supermarkets
AN INITIATOR OF TELEVISION FROM TARNOW
WITOLD IWAŃCZAK
He was called Polish Edison. For over a hundred years newspapers in the whole Europe and America wrote about the inventions of this Pole. He was invited even to China to present his achievements. »
UKRAINE – BETWEEN EUROPE AND RUSSIA
JÓZEF SZANIAWSKI
A geopolitical key for restoring the Russian empire is Ukraine. It used to be a part of the West when it was one of the three parts of the First Polish Republic »
JOLANTA MARSZAŁEK
Euro 2012 is a big event in the sport world. Soon the best footballers will arrive to our country from the whole Europe, followed by sport fans, tourists, journalists who will co-create this big event. »