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TWO TOTALITARISMS

The purpose of the dialogue is comparable but it is done in a different reality than the beginnings of the Polish-German dialogue after the second world war. The letter of Polish bishops to the German ones from the year 1965 was a unilateral declaration of the Polish Episcopate, to which German bishops reacted later. While, as far as the present Common Message to the Nations of Russia and Poland is concerned , at once we deal with a document of the both Episcopates (…). »

WHAT IS IT ABOUT IN THE CONVENTION OF THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL ABOUT THE VIOLENCE TOWARDS WOMEN

ANTONI SZYMAŃSKI

Two years ago an Act of Violence in a family was deeply novelised and at that time the government stated that it was introducing complex changes which would protect it effectively from violence. At that time there appeared social protests against many solutions of this Act which has recently been implemented in life, involving over a million new people in its realisation »

The words of Archbishop Wacław Depo – the Metropolitan of Częstochowa on the occasion of the 1000th edition of the ‘Częstochowa Sunday’

Joy and gratitude

Archbishop Wacław Depo

At the very beginning of this message I would like to recall a kind of a principle, which obliges all of us believing in Christ: ‘Sentire cum Ecclesia’. This short sentence which précises us the Latin language, has a very rich essence and a calling often heard by us, derives from it, that we should ‘live the life of the Church’ through the Divine grace. Therefore, I received the message about the 1000th evangelising edition of our Częstochowa edition of ‘Sunday’ with joy and gratitude towards God. »

LET’S SAVE THE CULTURE PROMOTION CENTRE ‘GAUDE MATER’ IN CZĘSTOCHOWA!

On 10 July 2012 the president of Częstochowa Town Krzysztof Matyjaszczyk started a procedure of dismissing Małgorzata Nowak from the post of director of the Culture Promotion Centre ‘Gaude Mater’. Moreover, the authorities of the town want to pursue a reorganisation of the Centre and pass the International Festival of the Sacral Music ‘Gaude Mater’ to the care of the Częstochowa Philharmonics. »

ABOUT VITAL MATTERS OF THE CHURCH

ABP JÓZEF MICHALIK

I would like to begin our reflection with the last meeting of bishops within 358. Polish Episcopal Conference which took place in Wroclaw on 21-23 June 2012. A special occasion for the meeting in Wroclaw was the Golden Jubilee of the priesthood of Archbishop Metropolitan Marian Gołębiewski. »

BEHIND THE EURO-FASADE

Wiesława Lewandowska talks with the parliamentarian Jerzy Polaczekabout a great satisfaction, big money, beautiful stadiums and roads from the lower European level

WE FIND IT NEAREST TO POLAND

Fr. Marek Łuczak talks with the vice-president of the National Group of Hungary dr. Janos Latorcaim about Polish-Hungarian cooperation and mutual perspectives in Europe on the occasion of a meeting of Polish and Hungarian parliamentarians in Jasna Góra, especially for the ‘Sunday’

BENEDCT XVI NEEDS OUR PRAYER

Włodzimierz Rędzioch talks with Paul Badde

THE SOVIET GENOCIDE

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. »

A WARNING SYGNAL

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. »

Muting

Wiesława Lewandowska talks with Professor Romuald Szeremietiew

It was my very personal – resulting from my own experiences – response to the comments appearing after this tragic and mysterious event »

‘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. »

THE TAMER OF BANKS

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 »

KNIGHTS OF CHRIST

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. »

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