Society-politics
IT WAS A FAREWELL TO AN INMATE
MATEUSZ WYRWICH
Private cars were joining taxis one by one. At the dissecting-room, the funeral procession consisted of a several dozen cars. Just behind the hospital gate – a few hundred. When a hearse with the body of the Priest was leaving the boundaries of the city, the funeral procession was over 4 km long. »
Fr. WIESŁAW WÓJCIK TChr
On 4-6 October this year in the sanctuary of Mariabersna near Budapest there was a conference held ‘ Media in passing faith’, organized by the Polish Pastoral Council of Western Europe. The meeting was attended by: most rectors and coordinators of the Polish Catholic missions, European pastors, the General Superior of Christ’s Society, the General Mother of King Christ’s Missionaries for Polish Diaspora abroad »
URSZULA BUGLEWICZ
The Catholic University of Lublin named John Paul II, started the 96th academic year. The great feast at the oldest university in Lublin was proceeding under the sign of the presence of archbishop Józef Michalik, the metropolitan of Przemyśl and the chairman of the Polish Episcopal Conference. »
FR. DARIUSZ OKO
In Europe there is more and more sex, but there are less and less marriages and children. People are dying and are becoming a one house of the elderly »
OUR LADY OF FATIMA HAS ALREADY BEEN ON THE RED SQUARE
Włodzimierz Rędzioch talks with Janusz Rosikon about his meeting with Our Lady of Fatima in Russia
GREAT GOD WORKS ARE DONE THROUGH MARY
ARCHBISHOP WACŁAW DEPO, the Metropolitan of Częstochowa
On 12-13 October 2013 we were witnesses of great God Works which were done during Mary’s Day of the Year of Faith. First the inhabitants of the whole globe were saying the rosary prayer. The mass prayer to God was taking place on the eve of the historical event when the pope Francis re-entrusted the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. At this blessed time, Our Lady of Fatima became a pilgrim among the pilgrims, arriving specially in Rome from Fatima. »
Fr. PAWEŁ ANDRIANIK
Recently, on some websites, there has appeared information that the Catholic Church in Germany allows people living in other relationships to receive all sacraments: the Holy Communion, baptism, confession. As an example, I give Fryburg archdiocese in Germany, which was to issue a letter in this issue. »
Wiesława Lewandowska talks with prof. Lucjan Piela about incompetence of the canon from Frombork and prof. Richard Feynman, according to the standards of correct investigators of the Smoleńsk air crash
Fr. RYSZARD KOPER
Some people are crying, some people are lying on the ground in the form of the cross, some people are touching the picture, are bringing whole armfuls of flowers, they are talking with Our Lady loudly, are singing and are applauding. This is the way, the black-skinned inhabitants of New York express their worship to Our Lady of Jasna Góra »
Fr. Inf. Ireneusz Skubiś talks with archbishop Józef Kowalczyk, the Primate of Poland, about the beginnings of nunciature and building the normality between Poland and the Holy See, about why the Polish concordat was a model for other countries of the former socialistic block, and about the backstage of administrative reform of the Church in Poland
POLITICS IS A GREAT ART FOR MASTERS
ARCHBISHOP JÓZEF MICHALIK
Politics is a great art which should be cultivated by masters, so wise people who are excellent in any respect, especially in respect of preparation, skills and faithfulness to ethics. This last feature is especially important, because abilities and skills are in vain if a politician does not know that his task is to serve to people, country and the nation, not realization of private ambitions or looking for private benefits. »
FATIMA IN ROME AND ALL OVER THE WORLD
LIDIA DUDKIEWICZ
Mary’s Day of the Year of Faith, celebrated on 12-13 October 2013, started with Mary’s divine service on St. Peter’s Square in Rome, and later there was a prayer vigil in the Roman sanctuary of Mary the Divine Love. The final of the Papal Day was the entrustment of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by pope Francis »
COLLAPSE OF POLISH MEDIA IN THE EAST
ARTUR STELMASIAK
During the last two years, half of Polish editorial offices were closed down in the East, and those which survived are in debts. Their catastrophic state is a merit of the policy of the Foreign Ministry »
Wiesława Lewandowska talks with Konrad Szymański about mechanisms of fighting the trade of gas and unconventional oil, a mysterious competition in the Polish government and taking care of interests of Poland in Brussels
AGNIESZKA DZIARMAGA
In the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Miechów, on 29 September this year, believers were reflecting on 850 years of the mission and the heritage of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, called Order of the Holy Sepulchre or members of Miechów. Dames and cavaliers of the Order present in the celebrations in Miechów, with their superior commander Karol Szlenker, wearing characteristic magnificent robes, ornamented with the Latin cross, reminded of the continuity of heritage and relation of Miechów with the Holy Land for many centuries. »