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7 unusual facts about Tygodnik Powszechny


Andrzej Kijowski

Kijowski, Sr. wrote for such publications as Przegląd Kulturalny and Tygodnik Powszechny.

Leopold Tyrmand

--PLEASE HELP WITH SIMILAR GOOGLE ERRORS THROUGHOUT--> With the help of an old friend - Stefan Kisielewski, he found work in the Catholic Tygodnik Powszechny magazine.

Tygodnik Powszechny

In his book Obłudnik Powszechny (2002) (The Common Canter), Jerzy Robert Nowak, said that Tygodnik Powszechny betrayed the ideals of John Paul II and the Church.

Later they were joined by Zofia Starowieyska–Morstinowa, Stefan Kisielewski, Leopold Tyrmand, Antoni Gołubiew, Paweł Jasienica (until he was arrested by the Communists in 1948), Stanisław Stomma, Hanna Malewska and Józefa Golmont–Hennelowa.

Columnists have included prominent clerics, such as Karol Wojtyła (who became Pope John Paul II), academics and poets, journalists and other writers, including Władysław Bartoszewski, Jerzy Zawieyski, Jacek Woźniakowski, Stefan Wilkanowicz, Adam Szostkiewicz, Leszek Kołakowski, Stanisław Lem, Zbigniew Herbert, Tadeusz Kudliński, and Czesław Zgorzelski.

Many people involved in the magazine participated in the political changes of the era (Józefa Hennelowa, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Krzysztof Kozłowski).

According to the analysis by Jarosław Gowin, presented in his book, Church in the Times of Freedom (Kościół w czasach wolności), Tygodnik Powszechny is one of the main representatives of ‘open’ Catholicism, inspired by Catholic personalism.



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