Society-politics
Fr. ADRIAN PUT
The Woodstock stop, organized for 19 years, in its purpose is thanking to volunteers for their work during the Final of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity. The Woodstock fields are visited by a few hundred thousand ‘volunteers’ every year and other people who want to listen to music performed by bands from Poland and abroad. »
SO THAT ATHEISM WOULD NOT DEVOUR OUR IDENTITY
Fr. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
We are with the Holy Father with our whole heart, who has returned from the far-away Brazil. We were watching beautiful pictures which were coming from the far-away country, from behind the ocean. We were admiring the faces of young people with sparkling eyes. Young boys and girls from the whole world arrived in this wonderful Southern-American land, in order to sing their youth together, in order to show – as the pope Francis says – that through a window of youth, the world looks more beautiful and better. »
A MEETING OF POLISH DIASPORA OF LATIN AMERICA
Fr. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
The editorial team of ‘Niedziela’ and the chief editor were invited for a meeting on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the existence of the establishment of the Union of Polish Associations and Organizations of Latin America. It was held in Tenerife in Spain, in Las Caletillas town, on 26 – 27 July 2013. »
THE LAND GATHERS ASHES AND IT REMAINS IN THE HUMAN BEING
MATEUSZ WYRWICH
Time was neither shorter nor longer. It was as it was supposed to be, when, holding hands with her friend, they were standing in front of the German firing squad. She was not afraid of anything. Only two obsessive thoughts were attacking her: that it would hurt and that she wanted to shout: ‘Poland has not died yet!’ »
A PRIEST – A SIGN OF OPPOSITION
I anxiously hear these opinions, in others words – I find them unsuitable. For I remember very well the state of ‘catechesis in halls by churches’. Such opinions reveal a problem which is not so much in the catechized youth, but in the so-called outer reformatories of catechesis or in the very evangelizers. That’s true that Jesus used to say: ‘if you want’, but the presence of catechesis at school does not determine a student’s free will. »
ON THE 69th ANNIVERSARY OF THE OUTBREAK OF THE WARSAW UPRISING
On the day before the 69th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, the Holy Mass celebrated at the monument commemorating the heroic uprising of the inhabitants of the capital city, was presided over by the apostolic nuncio in Poland archbishop Celestino Migliore. »
PEOPLE OF MOUNTAINS ARRIVED WHILE PRAYING AND SINGING
Highlanders arrived in Jasna Góra on 31 July. 1100 pilgrims were wandering in 4 groups: Bachledówka, NowyTarg, Rabka and Orawa. During 9 days they walked 180 km. The leader of the whole pilgrimage was Fr. Marcin Miłek, a Pauline Father from Bachledówka. In his ministry he was supported by 18 priests, 8 clerics and 10 nuns. The motto of the pilgrimage route were the words: ‘Lord give us more faith’. The youngest pilgrim was 2-year-old Ola, the oldest one was 76-year-old Mrs. Marianna. »
Fr. KONRAD KRAJEWSKI AN ARCHBISHOP AND A PAPAL ALMONER
The Holy Father Francis appointed prelate priest Konrad Krajewski the papal almoner, who has worked in the Office of Papal Liturgical Celebrations since the year 1998 and is a papal master of ceremonies. Also the pope Francis honored him with the title of the titular archbishop of Benewent in North Africa. »
POPE FRANCIS WITH JOURNALISTS ABOARD OF AN AIRPLANE
(Catholic Information Agency)
It was nearly an hour and a half when pope Francis was talking with journalists accompanying him on 28 July in ‘volopapale’ from Rio de Janeiro. »
ALINA CZERNIAKOWSKA
I understood how important is every human, the most ordinary life. Every life is the universe – says a nun and a missionary working in Kazakhstan for 12 years. –Sometimes it is a route of 100 km through snow, rough terrains by various means of transport, in order to meet two students or one elderly woman. Now I know, that it has sense’. »
GUARDIANS OF THE POLISH IDENTITY
Fr. Ireneusz Skubiś talks with Fr. Ryszard Sztylka – a rector of the Polish Catholic Mission of the countries of Benelux and Fr. Aleksander Doniec, a pastor, working on this area, about worries and hopes of Polish emigrants
WHAT THEIR HANDS AND EYES EXPERIENCED
MATEUSZ WYRWICH
Ten years ago, in the beginning of July 2003, the president of Warsaw at that time Lech Kaczyński signed a decision about building the Museum of Warsaw Uprising. A small group of enthusiasts were engaged in its realization. Generations of insurgents’ grandchildren, who were threatened with a quick defeat »
A NEW QUALITY IN THE POLISH TELEVISION
Fr. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
The decision of the Polish National Broadcasting Council about granting the concession to the Television Trwam, for the ground-based broadcasting, met with a feeling of a relief from the Foundation Lux Veritatis, which is the owner of this Television. »
A NEW SCIENTIFIC PROJECT: 'PRIESTS FOR THE JEWS'
Fr. Paweł Rytel-Andrianik
A new scientific project 'Priests for Jews' documents and verifies what priests did for Jews during the Second World War. »
AROUND THE MEMORY ABOUT THE CRIME IN VOLHYNIA
ARCHBISHOP JÓZEF MICHALIK
I am aware of the fact that my voice is not the voice of a historian, but a priest who in this case must refer to history. »