Society-politics
Political pressure, this time on Mr Czuma
Czeslaw Ryszka
On 25 August 2011, proposing one amendment the MPs from the Civic Platform (PO) changed completely the content of the report of the parliamentary committee investigating alleged political pressure. »
Reflecting on the report of Miller's committee
Czeslaw Ryszka
Finally, on 3 August 2011, after several months of quarrels between the senators of the Law and Justice Party and the Speaker of the Polish Parliament, there was a debate on the Smolensk plane crash. »
Agnieszka Dziarmaga talks to Rev. Msgr. Marian Janus, National Co-ordinator for Walking Pilgrimages, about the condition of contemporary pilgrimages.
A pilgrimage is a journey of believers to some place that has been sanctified by God's presence; its aim being to pray in the atmosphere of community and brotherhood, to seek God and be with him on the hard pilgrim's path. »
An increasingly longer nose of Pinocchio
Wieslawa Lewandowska talks to Jerzy Polaczek, MP, about the success of serviceability of the Polish motorways, a billiard club in Shanghai and ‘beautiful chaos.’
Folks, I do not want to join your sect!
Katarzyna Woynarowska
She told me she was almost losing her faith. One of the reasons was that in the Catholic country she did not know where to find help and she had no one to talk to. »
Report on the condition of the state
Witold Dudzinski
Inadequately trained, wrongly directed by the Russian air traffic controllers and fatally equipped airfield - the most important conclusions of the committee chaired by Jerzy Miller, the Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. »
Strengths and weaknesses of the Polish arms industry
Boguslaw Kowalski
National security is one of the most important tasks of the state. It is hard to realise it in separation from one's own military power and modern defence industry as infrastructure. The Polish commanders in the times of the Second Polish Republic, including Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, were aware of that. Then the big national efforts led to the construction of the Central Industrial District, thanks to which restored Poland could base her sovereignty on her own productive potential. »
Malgorzata Cichon
Thinking about the Servants of God Michal Tomaszek and Zbigniew Strzalkowski I recollect the recently awarded film 'Of Gods and Men' - the French monks murdered in Algeria in 1996. The film does not focus on the murder and its motives but speaks about their daily lives, prayers, relationships and choices that led to the situation that the lives of non-ideal brothers 'fell to the ground, died and yielded much fruit.' We also have Polish men of God. »
With the Primate of the Millennium towards reconciliation
Archbishop Jozef Michalik
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski was the authority during the times of his ministry. Can he be a guide/leader in the Polish land today, too? »
Fr Jan Pach, OSPPE
There were such situations that the Church lost against the governments. And we can still lose against this or that government, this or that party, this or that state but we must not lose against the Nation. »
Wind of history
Withdrawal from the European Union?
Marcin Masny
On 10 February 1976 the Polish Parliament passed the amendments to the Constitution of the Polish People's Republic. From that time the superior law was 'the inseparable relation of the Polish-Russian friendship.' »
The steadfast Cardinal Swiatek
Stanisław Marek Krolak
Anna Cichoblazinska
The cooperative movement is developing in Ukraine. It was restored in 1992 thanks to the help of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, the USA and Australia. The Polish Savings and Credit Unions SKOK have made a big contribution to the development of our Eastern neighbour. »
Fr Ireneusz Skubis
Bishop Albin Malysiak passed away. He was 94 years old. He was very friendly towards 'Niedziela' till the end of his life. I remember Bishop Malysiak saying, 'You are doing a good 'Niedziela.' You are doing a good weekly. »