On the ways of faith
MARY WAGNER’S BIRTHDAY IN PRISON
(Editors)
More and more people, including the ones from Poland, join the action ‘A rosary bouquet for the unborn on the occasion of Mary Wagner’s birthday’. The Canadian woman, who celebrated her 41st birthday on 12 February, is serving her another term of imprisonment because she was praying outside an abortion clinic. »
A ROSARY PRAYER FOR UKRAINE EVERY DAY
Editors of ‘Niedziela’
Fatima is a sanctuary probably the furthest one from Polish borders in Europe. It is also – beside Jasna Góra – a place which is connected with Polish issues the most. Everything began in the year 1917. The nexus of historical events made Fatima not only so dear for us because of the characteristic religious feature, which was so easily accepted in our country »
CHURCHES IN POLAND APPEAL FOR RESPECTING SUNDAY
GRZEGORZ POLAK
Chairmen of the Polish Episcopal Conference and superiors of all seven Churches gathered in the Polish Ecumenical Council signed the common ‘Appeal for respecting Sunday in Poland’ on 20 January 2015 in Warsaw. This is a significant achievement of the Polish ecumenism because the supreme Christian churches in Poland expressed their unanimous opinion on the issue extremely important for Christ’s followers, which is fulfilling the third commandment of the Decalogue »
SPECIAL MISSION OF MASS MEDIA TOWARDS FAMILY
Archbishop Wacław Depo
The Chair of the Council for Mass Media of the Polish Episcopal Conference
In 2015, it is the 49th time we have been experiencing the Day of Mass Media in the Church. The issue of Pope Francis’ message prepared on this occasion, sounds: ‘Mass media presenting the family as a favouring environment of a meeting in selfless love’. »
FR. PAWEŁ ROZPIĄTKOWSKI
How to find godparents for one’s child? This question is often asked by parents who cannot find suitable candidates in their families. Some of them do not meet necessary criteria because of their life choices, and others do not simply want to »
CH@T WITH A WORD AND CULTURAL ACADEMY OF THE HEART
Lidia Dudkiewicz talks with Bishop Henryk Tomasik, responsible for organizing the World Youth Days about the program of the World Youth Days – Kraków 2016, about fascination with John Paul II and the Ch@t with a word
MATEUSZ WYRWICH
CitizenGO organization was established last year, and has been functioning in 60 countries now. It addresses its petitions written in 11 languages, both to authorities and citizens. Whereas, actions undertaken by it, standing in defence of Christian values are very effective. Today CitizenGO gathers over 2 million people »
A CANADIAN WOMAN – A LIFE DEFENDER IN PRISON
JOWITA KOSTRZEWSKA
On the day before the Christmas Eve, Mary Wagner, a Canadian woman defending life, was arrested again for violating probation officer supervision and disturbing economic activity of one of abortion clinics in Toronto. »
A LETTER OF MARY WAGNER’S MOTHER TO POLES
(L.D.)
In the letter to Poles, which Jane Wagner, mother of the pro-life activist wrote, there are such words: ‘May God bless Poland! Thank you that you are for Mary. Do not give up your efforts!’ The letter was addressed to Jacek Kotula and all good people in Poland. »
ARTUR STELMASIAK
A procession of Three Kings gains popularity in our streets. Last year, over 600 thousand people in 180 cities arrived in Bethlehem. What are we going to face up on 6 January 2015? »
PRIESTS’ VISITS TO PARISHIONERS’ AT CHRISTMAS TIME – A MARCH TO PERIPHERIES OF A PARISH
FR. MAREK ŁUCZAK
Going to the church on Sunday – we are looking for sacrum – says Anna Musialik-Chmiel, a journalist for Radio Katowice. – During this year’s priests’ visits to parishioners’ this sacrum comes to us »
A PRIEST’S VISIT AS THE ‘HOME CHURCH’
Fr. Marek Łuczak talks with a religion sociologist prof. Wojciech Świątkiewicz about the sense of a priest’s visit, its evolution and about why a priest should not be ‘borrowed’ for a visit
WITOLD DUDZIŃSKI
The purpose of ‘ADVENTure’. Retreats in a big city’, beginning on 5 December 2014 is going out with the Gospel – to which pope Francis calls – outside walls of churches »
ANNA PRZEWOŹNIK
Beata Kołtun and Wioletta Kołtun are twin sisters and nuns from the religious order of Christ the King’s Missionaries for Polish Diaspora abroad. Can the desire for religious life in the twin sisters appear at the same time? Who calls the sisters? Is it God or maybe suggestion and influence of one sister on another? »
Lidia Dudkiewicz talks with archbishop Stanisław Gądecki – the Chair of the Polish Episcopal Conference