Society-politics
About the left wing in the shadow of the right wing
Wieslawa Lewandowska talks to Dr. Tomasz Zukowski about the extraordinary environment of the post-communist centre-right wing and the quite new left wing.
Till 20 June 2010 we seemed to have had a stable, two-party political system: two centre-right parties having common roots; the difference being distrust rather than programmes. »
When the party said it would give, these were only words
Czeslaw Ryszka
No matter who our President is he will have to face the tragic effects of the floods. In spite of the fact that the fate of the flood-affected people is in the hands of the Prime Minister and the government there were so many promises made during the presidential campaign that withdrawal from help would be shameful. »
Fr Ireneusz Skubis
The first presidential voting is over. Grzegorz Napieralski as the candidate of the left wing is said to have the biggest success and the society is said to begin supporting this political option again. »
The Senate debates about the plane crash at Smolensk
Czeslaw Ryszka
Two months after the tragedy at Smolensk the Senate debated about the causes of the presidential plane, which had been the biggest tragedy in the Polish and perhaps the world history. »
Rev. Msgr. Ireneusz Skubis talks to Rev. Msgr. Marian Subocz, director of Caritas Polska about helping people who were affected by floods.
Jan Maria Jackowski
Catholics were stirred to learn that Portugal’s President signed a bill legalising homosexual relationships. Anibal Cavaco Silva is a practising Catholic and a friend of the Patriarch of Lisbon Cardinal José da Cruz Policarpo. »
Reconciliation with ‘Moscow warranty’?
Marian Miszalski
After the plane crash the Russian faction, having been hidden within the Prussian faction, appealing to an urgent ‘reconciliation with Russia’, spoke again. ‘Reconciliation’ is a very individual act, a personal one. »
Poland needs a national strategy
Fr Ireneusz Skubis talks to Marek Jurek, a presidential candidate, the leader of the Right of the Republic, former Parliament Speaker.
Forest, boletuses and Polish conscience
Rev. Msgr. Ireneusz Skubis talks to Elzbieta Jakubiak, MP
We choose ‘remembrance and identity’
Krystyna Czuba
Homeland – when I am thinking of it – I meet John Paul II, Primate Stefan Wyszynski, Fr Jerzy Popieluszko. I meet the martyrs of the German and Soviet camps. »
Wieslawa Lewandowska asks Prof. Zdzislaw Krasnodebski whether the dispute about Poland should stop or on the contrary, it should go on.
Some questions about patriotism and Europeanness
Czeslaw Ryszka
The start of the presidential campaign and then the flood brought us important information: on 13 May 2010, in the town hall in Aachen Prime Minister Donald Tusk received the German Charles the Great Prize, called the European Nobel. »
It is about being responsible and not mediagenic
Fr Ireneusz Skubis
Flood. A tragic word, especially for those who have been afflicted: they lost their houses, properties and even family members. »
Honorray Committee – without honour
Fr Walerian Slomka
On the day that was meaningful for Catholics and our nation: on the feast of the Ascension, on the commemoration day of the Cardinal of the Millennium »
Jan Maria Jackowski
In the shadow of the crash at Smolensk and the presidential campaign the Parliament passed the extraordinary bill on domestic violence counteraction in an almost unnoticed way. »