Society-politics
BECAUSE CHILDREN NEED AUTHORITIES
Prof. Jan Tadeusz Duda, an inhabitant of Cracow, runs the Department of Applied Information Technology at the University of Science and Technology, is a chancellor of the Local Seym in Lower Poland. In his private life – he is married (for 45 years) to prof. Janina Milewska-Duda and has got three children, among whom his oldest son – Andrzej Duda was elected the President of the Polish Republic. Maria Fortuna- Sudor talks with prof. Jan Tadeusz Duda about the father’s role in family life
MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI
The Union of countries is the only patent of European countries. The name ‘European Union’ appeared in the beginning of the 90s of the last century, when the Treaty from Maastricht, defining a cooperation among a dozen countries of our continent, was finalized. When nearly six years ago, the Lisbon Treaty was implemented, it gave the EU legal character. »
MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI
It is not the first castling in the European Parliament. From time to time euro-deputies say farewell, who hold important posts in their countries. »
KATARZYNA WOYNAROWSKA
A spokesman of children’s rights appeals not to call children euro-orphans, because this name has got pejorative tinge and stigmatizes. It is better to use the name ‘children from transnational families’, that is, the ones in which one of parents lives abroad. »
IN DEFENCE OF THE GOOD NAME OF THE POLES
Fr. Ireneusz Skubiś talks with Fr. Paweł Rytel-Andrianik – a grandson of a prisoner of the camp in Treblinka, who, among the others, documents help brought to the Jews by Poles during the Holocaust
FR. SŁAWOMIR PIETRASZKO
The end of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX century. Hard times of a serious economic crisis, poverty, mass emigration of people in Italy. »
URN WITH THE ASHES OF THE LATE GENERAL BŁASIK DEPOSITED AT JASNA GÓRA
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In the Chapel of the Nation Remembrance at Jasna Góra, on 9 May this year, the urn with the ashes of the late General Andrzej Błasik, a pilot and commander of the Air Forces of the Polish Republic and who was killed in the air crash on 10 April 2010, was deposited. »
IT IS ALL ABOUT THE HEART OF THEOLOGY HERE
GRZEGORZ GÓRNY
Before the session of bishops’ synod in October about the family, there is still a hot discussion in the Catholic Church. The hottest controversies are raised by a suggestion of most hierarchs about allowing divorced people to receive the Holy Communion as well as people being remarried. »
MATEUSZ WYRWICH
On a basement wall there are written surnames like inscriptions in a prison cell: generations of Polish Jews – Aszer, Gross, Hirszfeld, Keingswein, Kramsztyk, Tenebaum….Saved by the married couple Antonina and Jan Żabińscy during the Second World War from German felons who respected animals from the zoo more than people »
MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI
The chief of FBI did not apologize Poland for his public calling Poles as ‘accomplices’ helping the Germans during the war in murdering Jews on a large scale. He only expressed his ‘grief’ that he had mentioned our country, which was to distract everyone from the essence of his whole speech. »
JAN ŻARYN
‘Two livers in the body of Przemysław Gosiewski. Gum gloves sewn inside of the deceased’ – Przemysław Dakowicz wrote media information in his journal, of which he started being aware in 2012. Besides annotations about photos of naked bodies of the supreme Polish clerks, photos being on Russian websites, from places which were under thorough control of those special services. »
ARTUR STELMASIAK
President Lech Kaczyński spread an ethos of service to Poland around himself. His Presidential Office was an excellent school for many young officials. Now they are entering great politics »
MICHAŁ KARNOWSKI
We are amused to observe an idea division of this campaign, imposed by election staff of Bronisław Komorowski. It must have taken a long time to find an idea to decide on an alleged clash of ‘rational’ with ‘radical’ Poles. Anyway, let’s try to explain it through examples. »
MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI
‘One of us’ is an European Citizen Initiative which was supported by over 1.8. million Europeans. It was established according to a suitable writing of the slimmed euro-constitution, that is, the Lisbon Treaty, whose purpose was to bring the European Union closer to citizens. »
Mateusz Wyrwich talks with the parliamentarian Antoni Macierewicz – the chairperson of the Parliamentary Team for Investigation of the Causes for the Tu-154M catastrophe on 10 April 2010