Society-politics
Jerzy Pawlas
The American President did not achieve much but he was given the Nobel Peace Prize to the joy of the odd communist dictators (Cuba, Venezuela). The supporters of abortion and privileges for homosexuals rejoice. At last they triumph over the values of the traditional society. »
War anniversaries: an attempt to make conclusions
Marek Jurek
The time that has elapsed since the war anniversaries lets me make first conclusions. The 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II demanded to remind people of the valid and fundamental truths. »
Let us talk about in vitro fertilisation
Fr Jaroslaw Kwiecien talks to Maria Smereczyńska, a correspondent member of the Pontifical Academy ‘Pro Vita’.
At the beginning of September the special parliamentary commission began working on the projects concerning in vitro fertilisation. Later the projects will be discussed by the Parliament and the Senate. »
Wieslawa Lewandowska talks to Rev. Prof. Wojciech Bołoz, a bioethicist from the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, about the possibility of bioethical compromise.
In September 2009 several extremely different draft projects of the bioethical bill with its main controversial issue of in vitro fertilisation were sent to the Parliament. »
Marek Jurek
Summer holidays are almost over. But they were not careless for all people. It is hard to believe how often during the several summer weeks there was news about crimes of anti-Christian hatred in South Korea, Nigeria, Pakistan, India and Cuba. Priests, Catholic activists or simple, poor people, enduring in their faith, have been murdered. »
What is happening to the Polish coal?
Boguslaw Kowalski
We have got used to define this raw material as ‘black gold’. Our coal industry was the basis of our export for many years and our energy security was based on it. »
Marek Jurek
The biggest success of politics is not lost elections but taking acts and creating institutions that last in spite of lost elections. »
The epic of the shipyards continues
Boguslaw Kowalski
All those who foresaw that the sale of the assets belonging to the shipyards in Szczecin and Gdynia by the mysterious company from the Dutch Antilles heralded further troubles were right. »
Concern for sobriety is concern for life
We recollect the 50th anniversary of the Guidelines of the Polish Bishops’ Conference for the ecclesiastical sobriety activities. The document issued on 17 June 1959 was the foundation of the sobriety pastoral work in Poland. »
Something more than thoughtlessness?
Marian Miszalski
During the recent conference in Prague, organised by the Brussels organs of the European Union, its participants signed a declaration that paved the way for various Jewish organisations to wheedle large sums of money out of Poland. »
Fr Pawel Rozpiatkowski
Christians are pushed to the social margin. This does not happen in the countries where they are the minority but in the ‘Christian’ countries of the West. Laymen and clergy raise such voices more and more frequently. »
Marian Miszalski
The German Constitutional Tribunal passed an odd ruling that ‘the Treaty of Lisbon is compatible with the German constitution but its implementation requires changing the German law so that the German Parliament could every time give its consent to implement the EU law in the territory of Germany.’ »
Politics of Poland’s self-degradation
Marek Jurek
pBefore the last session of the European Council I again appealed to the Prime Minister Donald Tusk to speak at the governmental summit about the immediate full subsidies for Polish farmers. »
Urszula Buglewicz talks to Maciej Barczentewicz, gynaecologist-obstetrician, a member of the Commission on Bioethical Issues of the Polish Bishops’ Conference. »
The effects of EU’s firmness towards Polish shipyards
Boguslaw Kowalski
It was neither the Treaty of Lisbon nor the EU subsidy payments for peasants nor the proposals of the reform of the EU institutions but the fate of the Polish shipyards that became the main subjects of the campaign before the elections to the European Parliament. »