Dear Readers of 'Niedziela',
The Archdiocese of Czestochowa has published the Catholic Weekly 'Niedziela' since 1926. At first the circulation of 'Niedziela' was small and distributed only in the diocese till the year 1939. During World War II the weekly was not published. In 1945, after the war it was distributed all over Poland but appeared till 1953 because the communist authorities suspended its publication. The break lasted till 1981. During the period of Solidarity the bishop of Czestochowa succeeded in re-establishing 'Niedziela'. Since then it has been published as the biggest Catholic weekly in Poland and Central-Eastern Europe. 'Niedziela' is read in Poland, Europe and America - practically on every continent. It has an electronic version and read in 111 countries worldwide. For several months the Russian edition, as a summary of our articles, has been published once a month. more...
Fr Ireneusz Skubis
NATUZZA EVOLO - MOTHER OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
Włodzimierz Rędzioch talks with dr. Francesco Nicolace - son of Natuzza Evolo
Today mothers have one, two or no more than a few children. But there are women whose motherhood has a spiritual character and they have a large number of children and daughters. Natuzza Evolo, a Calabrian mystic - died on 1 November 2009 - for millions of people she was and is still 'mamma Natuzza' - mother Natuzza. »
A NEW FEAST IN THE POLISH CHURCH
Fr. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
According to the decision of our Episcopate on 23 May 2013, it will be the first time we will have been celebrating the feast of Jesus Christ the Supreme and Eternal Priest in Poland. From now on, it is going to be always celebrated on Thursday, after the Pentecost. It is a feast which is important in regard to the fact that the function of a priest belongs to the basic functions in the Church and each of practically meets with it. »
SHE PASSED AWAY WITH THE MARY’S GORGET ON HEART
LIDIA DUDKIEWICZ
She had gone through her whole life with Mary. Having a gorget of Blessed Mary on her heart, she crossed the gates of the eternity. And, additionally, within the gaze of Our Lady of Jasna Góra. »
I WILL PUT ON ONLY SHOES FOR A LONG TRIP
PAWEŁ NAWROCKI
It has been another anniversary of the murder of Grzegorz Przemyk – a person important for a generation, becoming mature during the years of the martial law, who is nearly forgotten or unknown today, especially to people who were at his age. »
‘THE BLESSED OF PURE HEART, FOR THEY WILL SEE GOD’ (MT 5.8)
Fr. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
It is one of an unusual blessing of Jesus from a Sermon on a Hill, who teaches us to look at the reality with beautiful, pure eyes. Such eyes come from the pure heart. The gospel of Jesus Christ is a book of love. On the one hand, it shows God’s love to the man, and on the other hand, the man’s love to God. We are learning from Jesus to look at God Father and at another man. In Jesus everything is beautiful, rich, full of developing life. »
WHAT DOES THE STRENGTH OF FAITH OF ONE MAN MEAN?
Prelate Priest Ireneusz Skubiś talks with Fr. Damian Karczmar OFMConv, a director of the Catholic Radio Niepokalanów, which on 12 May 2013 celebrates the 75th anniversary of its existence
THIS VISIT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL
Wieława Lewandowska talks with Piotr Bączek about the neglecting attitude of the state institutions towards the presence of President at the ceremonies in Katyń in 2010, neglects, a bad will of the supreme offices and the influence of foreign services
THE BLESSED MARY – THE QUEEN AND MOTHER, THE INTERMEDIARY AND GUARDIAN
ARCHBISHOP JÓZEF MICHALIK
Homily of archbishop Józef Michalik, preached during the Holy Mass on the feast of the Blessed Mary Virgin the Queen of Poland, with the participation of the Episcopate, Jasna Góra, 3 May 2013 »
LAND OF MEETING BETWEEN GOD AND A MAN
LIDIA DUDKIEWICZ
The Holy Land is the holiest land in the world where the heaven met with the earth through the Incarnation of God’s Son. This is a home of Christianity, a witness of salvation events. Here the Church was also born, and so was the community of believers in Christ »
I AM SAYING: ‘AND DIDN’T I SAY?’
Wiesława Lewandowska talks with dr. Cezary Mech about weak points of supervision and dictate of big financial institutions, a cynical criticism of Open Pension Funds and Cyprus banks and Polish Credit Unions
A TESTIMONY OF FAITH FROM VLADIVOSTOK TO FATIMA
(akw)
‘In the Knights’ Hall at Jasna Góra, on 25 April this year, a photographic exhibition was opened, entitled; ‘From Ocean to Ocean’– the first phase of the peregrination of the copy of the Częstochowa Icon through the world in defense of life’. The peregrination has comprised 24 countries of Asia and Europe so far. ‘Sunday’ wrote a lot about this unusual international work, organized by pro-life movements in the intention of life defense. »
Prelate Priest Ireneusz Skubiś talks with priest Wiesław Wójcik TChr – a director of the Institute of Emigration Pastoral Ministry named cardinal August Hlond in Poznań
A MASTER AND A GUARDIAN OF POLISHNESS
DIONIZY SIMSON
At the beginning of the 70s of the last century, divine services in Polish for Poles inhabiting Switzerland were once a month among the others in Berno, in a small chapel at Kapellenstrasse. »
IT IS POSSIBLE TO DESTROY EVERYBODY
Fr. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
Everybody who watched a Polish film by Ryszard Bugajski ‘A closed system’, experienced a real shock; especially that in the end of the film there is information that three perpetrators of a tragedy of other people do not bear any consequence for their diabolical actions, but got promoted and are doing quite well. »
POLITICAL OFFICIOUSNESS OF MARSHAL BORUSEWICZ
Fr. WOJCIECH GÓRALSKI
Is the rule of independence and autonomy of the State and the Church (art.1 of the Concordat) a silence of the Church? »
A CLIMATE PACKAGE IS DANGEROUS FOR 250 THOUSAND WORKPLACES
Anna Cichobłazińska talks with the MP Beata Kempa about the initiative of Solidary Poland suspending the climate-energy package
ZBIGNIEW RABIŃSKI
As long as I remember, that is, always, Anna German was extremely close to me. I do not know why? It is impossible to explain rationally. She simply was. Her personality, her charm made an impression on me when I was a very young boy. And this enchantment has continuously lasted till today. »
JOLANTA PAŁASZ
The festival in Niepokalanów, organised by the Catholic Film Association of the name of St. Maximilian Kolbe and the Niepokalanów Monastery of the Franciscan Fathers, is a review and a summary of the Polish and worldly achievements in the sphere of movie and multimedia featured by evangelical values. The festival is a sensation in the world scale due to its multimedia character »
WHAT DOES THE POOR CHURCH MEAN?
- People all over the world are observing the style and behavior of Francis and will surely demand the same from their pastors – says Andrea Tornielli, an Italian Vatican expert in the interview with Milena Kindziuk.
AGNIESZKA KONIK-KORN
‘The parent aim of any actions in education must be welfare of a pupil’ – this sentence of Krystyna Szumilas appears on websites of the Educational Ministry repeatedly like mantra »
THEY WANT TO READ ABOUT FRANCIS
WITOLD DUDZIŃSKI
During this year’s Fair of Catholic Publishers there was a record of attendance. Over 20 thousand visitors took note of the offer of 140 publishers, presented in the arcades of the Royal Castle in Warsaw »
An interview with prelate priest Ireneusz Skubiś
WHY SHOULD CREDIT UNIONS BE DESTROYED?
CZESŁAW RYSZKA
The Ministry of Finance informed that according to its calculations, the public debt was 840.5 milliard zlotys at the end of last year, but many experts prove that it exceeded over 900 milliard zlotys long time ago. The fact that the debt is much higher is proved by the fact that the government is taking over and selling everything, which has still its value. »
TOGETHER IN FRONT OF OUR LADY OF CZĘSTOCHOWA
LIDIA DUDKIEWICZ
Thanks to photographic agencies and TV cameras, the world saw two popes kneeling together in front of the image of Our Lady from Jasna Góra. It was only God, who had planned this prayer meeting just now and in this way »
RE-INVESTIGATION OF THE AIR CRASH
ARTUR STELMASIAK
Initially Miller’s report was supposed to be obliging also for prosecution. However, it turned out to be such a big dud »
NEW IS COMING WITH POPE FRANCIS
Fr. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
‘I want the Church for the poor!’ – it was said so by the Holy Father Francis in his speech to journalists. These are the words which are a bit surprising and forcing to ask a question how the Church is supposed to understand this desire of the Supreme Priest and Leader for the nearest years. The Church for the poor is one which is all over the world. The whole Church, as far as material side is concerned, is not rich. »
Fr. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
God – Honour – Homeland – the motto of the Polish Army, written on the flags of Polish military forces, is a very important call, to which every Pole Catholic should be faithful. Certainly, in the first place there is always God, our Creator and Lord, who is Love, in which ‘we move and we are’(see the Acts 17.28)and to whom we are aiming with our whole life. »
POLAND – THE ANTI-THESIS OF CHINA
An interview with PhD Cezary Mech about feudal habits of the EU, economic expansions of giants, degradation of Poland and a necessity of return to ethics in economy. Wiesława Lewandowska talks with PhD Cezary Mech
‘A CLOSED SYSTEM’ – a shocking, fact-based hunting
Fr. ŁUKASZ PASTERNIAK
Poaching is one of the most urgent problems of hunting. This is a cruel procedure of catching a wild animal by illegal methods, forbidden by hunting law. Despite continuous actions aiming at overcoming this problem, the scale of poaching in Poland is still enormous. It is also fostered by the very system of extremely mild punishments. »
MARGITA KOTAS
‘Our life is endangered, but we do not want to go away from here. We are scared, but we are sure that here we have a mission to fulfill. It depends on you whether our efforts will not be in vain. Therefore I ask you again with all my heart: WAKE UP!!!’ »
JASNA GÓRA IS PRAYING FOR THE CASUALTIES OF THE SMOLEŃSK CATASTROPHE
The celebrations of the 3rd anniversary of the Smoleńsk catastrophe took place at Jasna Góra on 7 and 10 April this year. On 7 April relatives of the catastrophe casualties were present, and among them: Ewa Kochanowska, Zuzanna Kurtyka and Dorota Skrzypek with their families. The Holy Mass was presided over by Father Dariusz Cichor, the general Definitor of the Pauline’s Order. »
ARTUR STELMASIAK
Ten thousand people arrived in Warsaw in order to celebrate the remembrance of 96 casualties of the air crash of the governmental airplane. The third anniversary of the Smoleńsk tragedy became also an occasion to express a protest against a lie »
WE THANK GOD FOR THE PONTIFICATE OF BENEDICT XVI
Fr. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
Pope Benedict XVI took over the Holy See in Rome eight years ago, on 19 April 2005. After the pontificate of John Paul II, who had directed the universal Church for 27 years very successfully and with the friendliness of nearly the whole world, it was not easy to be pope; especially that cardinal Ratzinger did not have much pastoral experience, as he had been a clerk of the Roman Curia for many years, a well-educated professor of dogmatic theology. »
WŁODZIMIERZ RĘDZIOCH
BIOETHICAL CHALLENGES WHICH THE CONTEMPORARY MAN IS FACING
‘I will claim for human life from a man and everybody – life of a brother’
(Genesis 9.5) »
JOHN PAUL II - A MYSTERY OF GREATNESS
Fr. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
It has already been 8 years since the moment when the unforgettable pope John Paul II passed away to Lord. On 2 April 2005 at 9.37 pm the whole world fell into deep sadness, silence and prayer. It is proved here by the films presenting St. Peter’s Square on that memorable evening, with vast groups of pilgrims on whose faces very deep grief and tears were visible. »
OUR LADY JOINED VLADIVOSTOK WITH FATIMA
ANNA WYSZYŃSKA
What seemed hardly probable 14 months ago, today became a fact. The icon copy of Our Lady from Częstochowa has travelled the way from Vladivostok to Fatima, visiting 24 countries in Asia, Europe and even Spanish Ceucta in Africa. The peregrination under the name ‘From Ocean to Ocean was organized in the pro-life intention. The ‘hot line’ full of prayer has 65 thousand kilometers. There has not been such a big campaign in the defense of the unborn yet. »
MATEUSZ WYRWICH
Once forgotten. Today they get enlivened in their Polish culture and tradition. They are allowed to remember that their ancestors were Poles. They can learn Polish language. They can learn Polish literature, visit the country of ancestors. »
POPE FRANCIS IN THE EYES OF HIS CO-BROTHER
Włodzimierz Rędzioch talks with Fr. Gulliermo Ortiz SJ, a director of the Spanish-Polish section of the Vatican Radio
Agnieszka Dziarmaga talks with Stanisław F. Osmenda KCHS – a secular master of ceremonies and a Custodian of the Headquarters of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem
Fr. Inf. Ireneusz Skubiś talks with Fr. Jerzy Twaróg OFM, a Bernard, a rector of the Polish Catholic Mission in Argentina about what kind of man cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is – pope Francis
ZDZISŁAW JAN RYN
It is worth looking at the beginning pontificate of pope Fancis from the perspective of the inhabitants of the Latin America (Iber-America). We rarely realize the fact that it is the continent comprising 20 countries and 9 autonomies, from Mexico in the north to Chile and Argentina in the south. Its area is over 21 million km2 and has over 0.5 milliard inhabitants, speaking mainly in Spanish, Portugese and French. »
Fr. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
We have a pope! From 13 March 2013 the 76-year-old cardinal Jorge Mario Borgoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, the primate of Argentina is the pope. The new pope took a name: Francis. This joyful statement of the cardinal Proto-deacon Jean-Louis Tauran has reached the whole world. We were witnesses of a kind of consternation which appeared among gathered believers on the St. Peter Square. »
CZESŁAW RYSZKA
During the Thanksgiving Holy Mass for the pontificate of Benedict XVI on 5 March, in the arch-cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Warsaw, archbishop Józef Michalik said: ‘Resignation of the Pope is a blow at a big bell for the Church and the world, it is a warning that something dangerous is happening…’. Calling this danger by name, archbishop Michalik pointed out to the whole strategy of eliminating God from the life of nations, societies and human consciousness, including a fight against life, marriage and family. »
SUPPORT OF BISHOPS FOR THE TELEVISION TRWAM
ARTUR STELMASIAK
Religion teaching, a bioethical document and an appeal for granting concession to the Television Trwam – are only a few issues which were discussed by bishops during the 361st Plenary Meeting of the Polish Episcopal Conference »
AGAINST THE TREND OF THE CREEPING ATHEISM
Fr. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
I would like to thank You, Dear Readers of the ‘Sunday’ again, for reading our weekly. First I say ‘thank you’ to those who are engaged in distributing it. Distribution is a very important task today. Certainly, comparing various press articles, we should note that every newspaper has its profile and emphasis arranged differently on issues which are important for us. For, every editorial office has its own assumptions and preferences. »
HOWEVER VILLAGES HAVE BEEN SOLD OUT!
Wiesława Lewandowska talks with Janusz Wojciechowski, a deputy for the European Parliament about the consequences of the capitulation of the Polish government in Brussels and about defects and the need of modification of the common agricultural policy of EU
A TRAGEDY ON THE EIGHT-THOUSAND-METER MOUNTAIN
WITOLD DUDZIŃSKI
It is certain: two of the four first conquerors of the Broad Peak of the eight-thousand-meter mountain in winter will not return home. They got lost during their descent – this is an official information »
Fr. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
We let you know about our editorial situation in many ways. We all know, that for a long time the costs of our life – also the costs of editing the magazine – have been higher. In spite of what we hear in the enunciations of those in authority, Poles find it worse and worse to live. High unemployment makes life difficult for many families, while they should create a friendly community, developing physically, intellectually and strengthening the spirituality of their members. »
CZESŁAW RYSZKA
The fiscal pact which was implemented in life on 1 January 2013 in the EU countries, which is so broadly discussed in Poland, is an international non-EU treaty, prepared under the aegis of Germany, in order to enforce financial discipline in the EU countries which are economically weaker (breaching the limit of deficit on the level of 0.5 per cent of the gross domestic product will result in strict punishments). »
Wiesława Lewandowska talks with dr. Piotr Naimski about (not) big EU funds and passiveness of the European policy of the Polish government
A PARALYZED GIRL – A HEROINE OF THE FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE
ZYGMUNT ZAGÓRSKI
It has already been written a lot about the fight of Poles in the conspiratorial country. However, there is still a lot to remind. »