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Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – In honor of the Pauline Year, the Polish Catholic Weekly, “Niedziela,” the most widely-read magazine in Poland with headquarters in Częstochowa, is proposing various different pastoral and cultural initiatives.
As Fr. Mariusz Frukacz told Agenzia Fides, the journal has recently published in its series “Biblioteka Niedziela,” a book entitled “Saint Paul, Apostle to the Nations.” Nearly 180,000 copies have been produced. The book, which is based on Biblical texts (Acts of the Apostles and Letters to Saint Paul), present the life and teachings of the Apostle of the Gentiles, almost in an “autobiographical” format. The text is enriched by photos of Rome, Malta, Greece, and Turkey, done by the journal’s photojournalists.
The photojournalist and the graphic studio at Niedziela have also prepared a Photographic Exposition entitled, “The Sites of St. Paul the Apostle.” The display will be opened on June 20 at the City Park in Częstochowa, in the presence of the city’s Archbishop Stanislaw Nowak, the Editor-in-Chief of Niedziela, Monsignor Ireneusz Skubiś, and the Mayor of Częstochowa, Tadeusz Wrona.
The Catholic Weekly has also created a special website in Polish, dedicated to the figure of Saint Paul. The site includes: the biography of Saint Paul, his writings, the catechesis of Pope Benedict XVI on Saint Paul, homilies of Pope John Paul II, articles from Biblical exegetes on the theology of Saint Paul, photographs from “The Sites of St. Paul the Apostle,” and the official program for the Pauline Year.
“The Year dedicated to Saint Paul is one of the most important pastoral initiatives of the Holy Father Benedict XVI,” the Editor-in-Chief of Niedziela, Monsignor Ireneusz Skubiś told Fides. “We, as the most widely-known Catholic magazine in Poland, should offer our readers the life and works of the Great Apostle Paul. This is another service of our site. I think that Saint Paul can be our Patron of Evangelization through the mass media. We have issued a special book based on Biblical texts, with photos of the sites of Saint Paul and have prepared the photographic display on Saint Paul, seeing as people nowadays, especially the youth, live in an era of images, of media.” (MF/SL) (Agenzia Fides 18/6/2008)
