Society-politics
MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI
The prime minister of Great Britain David Cameron, after the last summit meeting of the European Council ended, said: ‘I am simply furious’. During debates he found out that the EU statistic government Eurostat had made correction of calculations of membership fees of all EU countries, which pay 1 per cent of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to the EU budget. »
Île de la Cité is a place of particular remembrance – remembrance of Paris, France, Europe. Remembrance inscribed mainly in a stone, starting with the cathedral Notre Dame and Sainte-Chapelle. The rank of a real symbol of the city belongs to the Zero Point situated in front of the cathedral, from which distances to all towns in France and Europe are calculated. »
INTEGRATION DOES NOT MEAN ASSIMILATION
LISTENED TO BY ANNA PRZEWOŹNIK
During a Vigil Night at Jasna Góra, on 17 and 18 October, bishop Wiesław Lechowicz, a delegate of the Polish Episcopate for Pastoral Ministry of Polish Emigration, in an interview with ‘Niedziela’, presented intentions with which he had arrived to the throne of Our Lady »
CZESŁAW RYSZKA
Gradually we are being tamed with degenerations in many ways, so that they would only serve to a fight with marriage as a relationship of one woman and one man »
Fr. Marek Łuczak talks with bishop prof. Antoni Długosz about preparation for marriage, about crises and about how to talk with children in difficult situations
ANDRZEJ TARWID
People live in constant fear. And priests can perform their ministry only in a complete discretion – it is how ceasefire in Ukraine looks like »
A SYMBOL OF TIMISZOARA PASSED AWAY
ROMAN WYBORSKI
On 28 September 2014, in his residence in Timiszara, the Orthodox archbishop Nicolae Corneau died at the of 90, who was the metropolitan of Banat – one of the most multinational and multi-religion regions of Europe – divided among three countries: Romania, Hungary and Serbia. »
MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI
It will be possible to broaden Competences of European Procurators beyond financial area »
ALINA CZERNIAKOWSKA
There are feelings which brighten our everyday life. Hearts are joyful, faces are radiating, eyes are laughing – one simply wants to live! When we quote John Paul II – ‘we must only look around in the sky, look around on the earth’, find time, stop in the haste of the mediocrity, get delighted. »
JAN ŻARYN
St. John Paul II repeated: ‘Do not be afraid of wanting holiness. Do not be afraid of being saints’. Annual celebrations of the All Saints’ Day also brought us into the atmosphere of historical references. The Universal Church chooses saint patrons and life guides among the saints who have achieved the eternal happiness. Let’s hope that we will meet with everybody, those who were noticed or not, through the Church on the earth. »
A GUARDIAN ANGEL OF CHALLAPATA
GRZEGORZ POLAK
Challapata, a town in the Bolivian Andes, situated nearly 4 thousand meters above the sea. There are regular fights in it between an army and members of the local car gang. There are killed and the injured. The situation is getting more and more dramatic. A young priest in a cassock functions between the fighting parties. »
KATARZYNA WOYNAROWSKA
In the early morning, in the centre of an unknown city, suddenly you start panicking: will I cope with everything? And later, you put days together like blocks. It is easier and easier. Day by day, till sleepless nights are less and less troublesome. Your thought about bringing your family here is getting mature. And then you become an emigrant from a seasonal worker… »
SHE SHOUTS IN THE DEFENCE OF BABIES BECAUSE THEY DO NOT HAVE A VOICE
ARTUR STELMASIAK
A 38-year-old Canadian woman was imprisoned because she had prayed for unborn children outside an abortion clinic. Now she is a symbol of pro-life movement all over the world. »
Włodzimierz Rędzioch talks with prof. Riccardo Redaelli – a lecturer at the Catholic University of the Blessed Heart in Milan
BRINGING BACK CHRIST TO EUROPE
Fr. Ireneusz Skubiś talks with the chairman of the Commission – archbishop Marek Jędraszewski, the general vice-secretary of the Council of Europe Bishops Conference – a Dutch priest. Michel Remery and the secretary of the Section for Universities – an Irish priest Leon O Giollain Sj