Society-politics
Włodzimierz Rędzioch talks with professor Valentina Colombo
The revolutions, which have been touching the countries of the Northern Africa and the Middle East, were caused by a desire of freedom and justice. The ‘Arabic spring’ was also associated with much hope for democratization of this part of the world. Unfortunately, with time passing, there are more doubts about using the regained freedom – will it be useful in creating democratic countries or will it rather be used to introduce totalitarian regimes, the Islamic ones this time, where the law of Sharia will be obliging. »
CHILDREN WITHOUT ANY CHANCE FOR LIFE
IWONA GALIŃSKA
In Polish hospitals, not including private surgeries, in the years 1956-85, as a result of abortion, 36 million children were killed. This period was a paradise of abortion. »
DAY OF A MIGRANT AND A REFUGEE
Fr. Wiesław Wójcik, Director of the Institute of Emigration Pastoral
The Holy Father Benedict XVI suggested reflecting on the following issue on the 99th World Day of a Migrant and a Refugee: ‘Migrations – a pilgrimage of faith and hope’. How important this contemporary phenomenon is for 215 million people living away from their homes, but also important it is for their relatives and families and the whole emigration pastoral ministry. 2 million our compatriots have left Poland recently. »
‘THE STORY OF KOWALSKI FAMILY’
ANNA JANOWSKA
The film ‘The story of Kowalski family’ – whose projection took place on 14 January this year in the auditorium of the editorial office of the ‘Sunday’, is based on authentic events from before 70 years. This is a story about inhabitants of Ciepielów near Radom, inhabited by the Polish-Jewish community living in harmony for ages. During the Nazis occupation German gendarmes committed a macabre crime there: on 6 December 1942, in one of houses, 34 people were set on fire alive – these were Polish families with children and Jews who were hidden by Poles. »
HISTORICAL MOBILIZATION IN THE DEFENCE OF NORMALITY
Fr. Martin de la Ronciere
In the ‘Sunday’ of 9 December 2012 I described the growing movement of resistance against the planned act allowing for ‘marriage’ of the same sex couples and adopting children by them. On 17 November and 8 December 2012 the manifestations in various regions of France gathered 300 thousand people in total, half of them from Paris. At that time I was calling the readers of the ‘Sunday’ to pray, so that the mobilisation of the French for the nation-wide manifestation planned on 13 January would be ‘massive and effective’. »
The voice of solidarity of the metropolitan Hilarion
After the profanation of the Miraculous Image of Our Lady at Jasna Góra
The chairman of the Department of Ecclesiastical Contacts of Moscow Patriarchate, the metropolitan Hilarion Ałfiejew sent letters of solidarity to the chairman of the Polish Episcopal Conference archbishop Józef Michalik and the metropolitan of Częstochowa archbishop Wacław Depo, to express his pain with clergy and believers of the Church in Poland after the profanation of the Miraculous Image of Our Lady of Częstochowa. »
Archbishop Wacław Depo - the metropolitan of Częstochowa, the chairman of the Council for Mass Media of the Polish Episcopal Conference
In the context of de-christianization, and also visible fight against the Church on many fields, one cannot forget that deficiencies in the work of new evangelisation result from neglects in the field of communication of the Church with contemporary times. »
The right of a man to the truth
Fr. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
The patron of journalists and Catholic press - St. Francis Salezy (1567 - 1622) is reminisced on 24 January. This French theologian and philosopher, a representative of humanism, a doctor of the Church, bishop of Geneva. »
In the defence of Television TRWAM
Grzegorz Kaszak, Bishop of Sosnowiec
An unusual situation, close to a scandal is a fact that Television Trwam has not received place on the multiplex so far. »
The property of land versus the Polish raison d'etat
Dominik Cywiński
The Polish nation must keep itself with the whole spirit and the whole heart, in order to secure its freedom and the place on the card of Europe, by getting related with land and not allowing for getting inherited from it. (Stefan Kardynał Wyszyński) »
IS THE DAY OF JUDAISM NECESSARY?
Fr. WALDEMAR CHROSTOWSKI
When in January 1998 the Catholic Church in Poland initiated the celebrations of the Day of Judaism, it was an unprecedented initiative. It was known by only a few dioceses on the area of Italy and Austria where it did not have a nationwide range. Anyway it has been so till today. After 15 years it is worth and needs doing a kind of a balance and remind about the roots from which the tradition grew out which has become strong in Poland. »
OTHER ATTEMPTS OF DISCRIMINATION OF TELEVISION TRWAM
(L.D.)
The chairman of the National Broadcasting Council Jan Dworak, during the press conference on 2 January 2013, said that he ‘is really sorry’ to accept the words of archbishop Sławoj Leszek Głódź, quoted by ‘Our Journal’, who demands the National Broadcasting Council to ‘present its explicit attitude in the issue of Television Trwam and the contest which had been planned for last four places on MUX – 1’ and to discuss these issues with the Broadcasting Council of the Polish Episcopal Conference. »
MISERABLE QUIET BARN IN GARDELEGEN
JANUSZ WOJCIECHOWSKI
Why will neither German Gross nor German Pasikowski show barns in Gardelegen to the world? »
CARDINAL STANISŁAW NAGY SCJ
He remains an example but also a monument of a victorious battle for the welfare of the Nation and the Church. »
PILGRIMS OF TRUSTFULNESS IN THE NAME OF CHRIST
PIOTR DRZEWIECKI
Young people from all over the world took part in the traditional New Year’s European Meeting of Youth. In the Year of Faith they arrived in the capital of Christianity – the Eternal City. »