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SENSE OF SAFETY

MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI

Outside the European Parliament in Brussels I got into a taxi. After a few minutes we had to stop, because in the very middle of the street there was a car with turned on engine, blocking traffic in both directions. Flickering lights did not bring any results, so the taxi driver, nearly brushing against other cars and a curb, miraculously pushed his way through. »

POWDERING A WOUND

MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI

The ending year 2016 will undoubtedly be associated with Brexit in the history of the European Union. In June the society of Great Britain made a decision in a referendum: we are leaving the European Union. Immediately after this act, discussions on its consequences began. »

GOD IS BEING BORN

MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI

Slowly normality, tradition, religion are returning. There are appearing characters of the Holy Family, Three Kings, shepherds at the crib on more and more Christmas cards. »

EXCLUSION

MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI

From the perspective of Brussels and Strasburg, the actions of the opposition in Poland are appearing in a grotesque way. However, a small group of foreign MEPs, who get easily deceived by the Modern Party, the Civic Platform party and others initiating debates about Poland in the Euro-Parliament, and must feel extremely embarrassed now. »

WE ARE STAYING HERE TO REBUILD THE HOUSE OF ST. BENEDICT

In December of the Jubilee Year 2000 three American monks got to Nurcia who decided to inhabit the city of St. Benedict, in a monastery built at the place of his family house, at a basilica devoted to the patron of monks. »

DIVINE MERCY

MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI

Indeed offcially the Holy Year of Mercy has already ended but we believe that Divine Mercy goes beyond this censorship »

HOW JOHN PAUL II CHANGED CUBA

On 16 November 2016 he reached the age of 80. 80 years intensively experienced, full of rich events, over 20 of them – in the light of illuminators of world media. Joaquin Navarro-Valls, the previous director of the Vatican Press Office, and a spokesman of John Paul II is one of the most known people connected with the pontificate of the Polish Pope. »

THEY SAID FAREWELL TO FIDEL CASTRO

MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI

In the Union there are more approving or even apologetic voices to the communist Fidel Castro »

DOWN SYNDROME DOES NOT KILL LOVE

PIOTR FRANKOWSKI

In 2014 European social organizations fighting for respecting rights of people with Down syndrome, prepared an advertising spot being an appeal to women who would find out that their babies would be born with this genetic defect. »

THE WIND WILL TELL YOU

MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI

‘How many roads must one wander in order to become a human?’ – these are the words of a song by Bob Dylan, which we remember from our youth. This American composer and bard received a literary Noble prize. This most prestigious prize in the world, awarded in many spheres, brings also financial aspect, because Noble prize winners receive over a million dollars. »

ELECTION OF AMERICA

JAN MARIA JACKOWSKI

The victory of Donald Trump in the presidential election in the USA caused a lot of comments. Some people – ‘politically correct’ – think that it is a tragedy, others – think differently. »

RULERS OF THE WORLD

MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI

The North-Atlantic Pact is the only defensive system to which the majority belongs, that is, 24 in 28 countries of the European Union »

MEMORY OF HIROSHIMA

FR. RYSZARD KOPER

I went to South Korea, Japan and Taiwan from New York with a group of 60 people. During that journey we experienced the truth of a saying of St. Augustine: ‘The world is a book and those who do not travel, read only one page’. »

ELECTION OF TRUMP

MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI

The election of Donald Trump is not approved of by EU decision makers »

CHURCH BLEEDING ON EUPHRATE

FR. ŁUKASZ JAKSIK

It is the eighth time when on the second Sunday in November in the Church in Poland, the Day of Solidarity with the Persecuted Church has been celebrated. This initiative is supported by the Polish Episcopate and the Holy Father encouraged everyone to support the action Help to the Church in Need, while he was speaking to Poles during the Angelus Prayer several years ago »

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