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SILENT SCANDALS

WŁODZIMIERZ RĘDZIOCH

Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sexual abuse of under-aged women, committed a suicide on 10 August 2019, in a prison in New York. In the USA the issue echoed, as it concerns a person very well-known not only in the financial world, but also politics, entertainment and science »

MY AUNTIE SAINT MOTHER THERESA

Krzysztof Tadej, a journalist for the TVP talks with Alojz Gombar - a cousin of Mother Theresa

MYSTERY OF THE CROWN OF THORNS

GRZEGORZ GÓRNY

A hero of Church in France is a chaplain of the Paris fire brigade 50-year-old Fr. Jean-Marc Fournier. When on 15 April 2019 the cathedral Notre Dame was on fire, the brave priest took the Blessed Sacrament out of fire. »

STRASBURG AS A MODEL OF ISLAMIZATION OF EUROPE

WŁODZIMIERZ RĘDZIOCH

I was in Strasburg over 40 years ago. That city impressed on me a lot then, I felt that it is in the heart of Europe – the modern and the historical one. In this city, there had been a Celtic settlement, later - a camp of Roman legions and a military colony, finally – a city of the Franks’ state, and in the Middle Ages - a free city of the Reich till it was joined to France in XVII century »

THE ULMÓW FAMILY IN ROME

WŁODZIMIERZ RĘDZIOCH

In Rome, at the Papal University Urbanianum on 27 November 2018 an exhibition about the Ulmów family was opened. The inauguration ceremonies took place in the main aula of the university. Guests present there were welcomed by the rector of the university – Fr. Prof. Leonardo Sileo. »

ST. JAN BERCHMANS A SIGN OF UNITY AND HOPE

BEATA PIECZYKURA

Belgium, Poland, USA. What connects these countries? An unknown saint? St. Jan Berchmans. A patron of a parish in Belgium and Poland. It was him who connected them with friendship. After years it turned out that its glow did not go out »

WITH THE CROSS ACROSS AMERICA

WOJCIECH DUDKIEWICZ

Pilgrims of Divine Mercy will have been going across Northern America for half a year. The motto of the pilgrimage, whose track is indicated by the shape of the cross, are the words from the ‘Diary’ of St. Faustyna: ‘Do not look at our sins, but at our trustfulness’ »

A RIOT IN LITHUANIA

MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI

‘Lithuania! My Homeland! you are like health’. »

A NEW QUALITY OF EUROPE

Wiesława Lewandowska talks with prof. Paweł Bromski about creating a ‘new European man’, a federalization process and the communist spirit of Europe »

THE WEST THAT IS THE DUSK

GRZEGORZ GÓRNY

he western civilization was built on the synthesis of three elements: Christian religion, Greek philosophy and Roman law. Is the statement in reference to the modern West actual? »

In Sweden great commotion

In fact it is one city – Vaxjo, where in the local Catholic church of St. Michael, it has been forbidden by the authorities for many years to ring bells. »

A HOSPITAL OF DREAMS

IWONA FLISIKOWSKA

First there appear dreams, from necessity and openness of the heart to suffering and helping another man – says dr. Rafiq Rishmawi a medical director of a hospital in Beit Sahor, near Bethlehem, being built in many difficulties but with lots of enthusiasm »

A HOSPITAL OF DREAMS

IWONA FLISIKOWSKA

First there appear dreams, from necessity and openness of the heart to suffering and helping another man – says dr. Rafiq Rishmawi a medical director of a hospital in Beit Sahor, near Bethlehem, being built in many difficulties but with lots of enthusiasm »

ROMAN FOOTPRINTS OF FATHER KOLBE

WŁODZIMIERZ RĘDZIOCH

He had a particular emotional relation with Rome where he lived for 8 years during his studies. On 28 April 1918 he was ordained a priest in the Roman church under vocation of Sant’Andrea della Valle »

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