Society-politics
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. »
Katarzyna Dobrowolska talks about the Euro 2012 with the auxiliary bishop of Kielce diocese and the delegate of the Polish Episcopal Conference for pastoral ministry among sportsmen, Marian Florczyk
L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO’ IN A WOMANLY ROBES
On the occasion of the first edition of the first supplement in ‘L’Osservatore Romano’ devoted to women, Włodzimierz Rędzioch talks with Professor Lucetta Scaraffia, a historian responsible for this new initiative of the papal journal.
A SOCIALIST ACTIVIST IN A UNIFORM FROM KENZO
He is still pretending to be somebody else. He was a nobleman, a hetman of Lublin. His opinions are ridiculous, it is an alternative theatre, a fun till the end – says Maria Nowińska, an ex-wife of Janusz Palikot
THE EAST MEETS WITH THE WEST THERE
Fr. MAREK ŁUCZAK
Today the area of the Lvov archdiocese is nearly 70 thousand km2, nearly 155 thousand of the faithful and over 300 active churches. However, a real reason for proud is undoubtedly the imposing tradition. This year the local Catholic Church of the Latin rite is celebrating the 600th anniversary of its existence. »
A CHINESE WALL FOR THE CHRISTIANS
FR. WALDEMAR CISŁO
The Holy Father Benedict XVI set up a Day of Remembrance and Prayer for the Church in China which is celebrated on 24 May »
MEDIA OF THE SECOND CIRCULATION
ARTUR STELMASIAK
The integration of independent journalistic environments and a few dozens internet, press, radio and television initiatives – are the main purpose of the assigned Congress of Independent Media. »
WE ARE UNCOVERING THE PLACES OF THE COMMUNIST CRIME
MATEUSZ WYRWICH
We have not known till today where there are the places of the massacre of Polish heroes fighting against the Soviet and communist occupant. As far as we know most places of the imprisoned and the murdered by the Germans, we find, archive and commemorate places where the crime of genocide to Polish patriots were done by the Soviet and Polish communists »
FR. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
‘Panem et circenses!’ – Bread and Olympic games! It was said so about the times of the reign of the great Roman Empire. For, the most important thing for the Roman commonalty was food – hence such a frequent giveaway of corn during the Olympic games by rich citizens who wanted to gain popularity for their political activity – and also the Olympic games, mostly the fights of gladiators, very popular among spectators. »