Society-politics
A CONFERENCE OF COURAGEOUS SCIENTISTS
ARTUR STELMASIAK
On 22-23 October this year in Warsaw at University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński there was the first scientific symposium devoted to technical analysis of the Smoleńsk catastrophe. Although the professors have very little credible data about the process of the last flight of the governmental airplane, science has a rich palette of possibilities and methods, in order to draw conclusions from this partial information. »
WITOLD DUDZIŃSKI
On the graves of the Smoleńsk victims there appeared a lot of flowers and grave candles. Similarly as during the celebration of All Saints’ Day in the recent years, but in a slightly different way »
A NEW PLACE FOR A FIGHT AGAINST CANCER
ANNA PFRZEWOŹNIK
Cancer illnesses are the biggest plaque of XX and XXI centuries, despite a lot of efforts of the scientific and medical worlds, we are still losing the fight about human life with them. »
PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
Father Krzysztof Bieliński CSsR talks with Fr. Prof. PhD. Henryk Witczyk – the director of the Biblical Studies Institute of the Catholic University of Lublin about proclaiming the Gospel in the contemporary world and faith of the Church
Fr. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
‘I do not believe in God’; ‘I am a non-believer’ –we often hear these words in our environments. Sometimes, quoting wise people’s words, we emphasize: he is a non-believer. I know a professor, a noble man, but stating definitely that he is a non-believer. Belief and unbelief. Let’s think on these two kinds of man’s view about the world. »
Fr. WALDEMAR KULBAT
In the recent time anti-church articles and TV programs have been overwhelming us. The past times are coming back – the times of hypocrisy, terror and fear. But has the situation of people subjected to the powers of this world really changed, who sell their souls for the relative welfare? »
POLISH WITNESSES OF FAITH IN ROME
WŁODZIMIERZ RĘDZIOCH
In its thousand-year-old history the church of St. Bartholomew on the Island was often rebuilt, especially after a terrible flood which in 1557 destroyed the building – in 1624 it was rebuilt in the Baroque style by OrazioTorriani; the facade with portico come from this period. The middle-aged accent was only the Romanesque bell tower from XII century which rises on the left side of the façade. »
Wiesława Lewandowska talks with a parliamentarian Antoni Macierewicz about personal resistance, drastic photos and arduous investigations which brings us closer to the truth
TO BE SALT IN ORDER TO SAVE WHAT IS REAL
Fr. Ireneusz Skubiś talks with archbishop Wacław Depo – the metropolitan of Częstochowa, the chairman of the Council for Mass Media KEP
Due to the conference in Łódź on 20 October this year, from the cycle ‘A journalist between the truth and a lie’, Henryk Tomczyk talks with an editor Zygmunt Chabowski, a chairman of the Łódź Catholic Department of the Association of Journalists
A BEAUTIFUL EUROPEAN WOMAN – THE HOLY QUEEN
ELŻBIETA MORAWIEC
When in dark years of partitions Henry Sienkiewicz was writing the ‘Trilogy’, he gave it a significant comment – ‘for spirit lifting’. We live in similarly dark times of new philistinism, which considers itself clever andshows everything in a disgusting way,and derides everything which composes the magnificence of the Polish tradition. Various wise men frown at the Polish martyrdom, a long-term sense of inferiority (!) of a victim etc. »
A TORTUOUS ROAD TO TOTALITARISM IN MASS MEDIA
JANUSZ WOJCIECHOWSKI
By the means of financial and barriers legislative tricks, the present authority wants to not only restrict but also destroy free mass media. »
ANNA WYSZYŃSKA
Statistics raise doubts. Despite warnings about the danger of asphyxiation with the carbon monoxide, the invisible killer gathers the fatal harvest every year. Obviously not everybody realise that in a colder season when flats’ heating is essential, we must care not only about heating but also our and our relatives’ safety. »
CONTEST
A LETTER IN THE YEAR OF FAITH. WE PASS ON THE GOSPEL TO OTHERS
Letters concerning faith: its essence, main messages and problems with passing it on to others, were written to the communities established by St. Paul, St. Peter, St. John and St. Jacob and their co-operators. They were followed by other evangelizers, among the others: Gregory the Great, St. Klara, St. Catherine, St. Theresa, St. Faustyna…The letters have been being written by popes and bishops till today. »
EURO-ENTHUSIASTS OR EUROSCEPTICS?
Fr. PAWEŁ ROZPIĄTKOWSKI
What positive things are noticed by Polish believing and practicing Catholics, which were fruits of entering of Poland into the European Union? First of all, they notice – although it must be honestly added that in this area not everybody sees – a positive influence on economical matters. Nearly 52 percent of them believe in positive results of the integration in the area of economy. »