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POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • MAY 2014 www.polamjournal.com 1 MAY 2014 • VOL. 103, NO. 5 $2.00 PERIODICAL POSTAGE PAID AT BOSTON, NEW YORK NEW BOSTON, AT PAID PERIODICAL POSTAGE POLISH AMERICAN OFFICES AND ADDITIONAL ENTRY ESTABLISHED 1911 www.polamjournal.com U.S. SENATE HONORS JOURNAL JAN KARSKI DEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION AND CONTINUANCE OF POLISH AMERICAN CULTURE PAGE 4 NATO TO INCREASE MILITARY COMMITMENT TO POLAND • EU THREATENS US OVER VISA REQUIREMENTS DIOCESE OKS STEEPLE FIX • MARKER TO HONOR DR. GOLASKI • POLES IN THE OLD LINE STATE: “BARDZO DOBRY” POPIEŁUSZKO DOCUMENTARY SET TO AIR • WOJCIECHOWSKI TAKES OVER AT MARQUETTE • NEW PORTAL FOR RESEARCH Our Pope, Our Saint NASZ PAPIEŻ, NASZ ŚWIĘTY Poland’s Favorite Son Ascends the Altar A Million Pilgrims Attend Co-canonization canonization liturgy. to deal with. Saint John Paul II — It was no coincidence that Pope Francis decided to co- During the days preceding the canonization, thousands pray for us! canonize those two pillars of Roman Catholicism at a single of enthusiastic Polish pilgrims — including entire families, ceremony. Pope John XXIII had launched the Second Vatican nuns, priests and seminarians, scouts, university students, sol- by Robert Strybel Council to revitalize the Church and open dialogue with other diers, and policemen — streamed into Rome. Most had come WARSAW —Millions of Poles stayed glued to their TV religions, while his Polish successor John Paul II was to make by plane, train, bus, and car (The ETW Network reported that screens on Mercy Sunday, April 27, to witness the long-await- ecumenism a cornerstone of his papacy. It has been said that 1700 buses came from Poland), but some chose motorcycles ed elevation to sainthood of their favorite son, Karol Wojtyła, John XXIII opened the doors of the Church to air it out, while and bikes and a few even made the more than 800-mile jour- better known as Papież Jan Paweł Drugi. And tens of thou- John Paul II walked through those doors and took the message ney on horseback or on foot. White and red fl ags were every- sands of Poles were among the estimated one million pilgrims to some 130 different countries world-wide. There were slight where to be seen, and Polish was the most common foreign who personally attended the joint canonization of John Paul differences in style between the kindly, rotund John XXIII language heard on the streets of the Eternal City. U.S. and II and his Italian predecessor John XXIII. It was the fi rst time and his charismatic Polish successor. But both were religious Canadian fl ags identifi ed many smiling North American Po- two popes were ever simultaneously proclaimed saints and leaders deeply committed to the service of God and man who lonians in attendance. the fi rst time two pontiffs — the currently reigning Francis never lost their common touch and people-friendly ways de- In tightly packed St. Peter’s Square, where large ban- and his retired predecessor Benedict XVI — took part in the spite all the protocol, pomp and celebrity treatment they had continued on back cover 2 www.polamjournal.com POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • MAY 2014 ALMANAC JUST BETWEEN US / Mark Kohan Congratulations Follow us on Facebook or visit us Habemus Sanctus! Pope John Paul II on the internet at: JOHN NIZIOL, M.D. polamjournal.com Before the Vatican could approve the sainthood of Pope Francis as leaders since John Paul II’s death, this John Paul II, two miracles had to be attributed to him. may not seem like anything extraordinary to our young- 140 Hepburn Road, 12L May Q Maj Both came after his death. er generation. But electing a non-Italian — let alone Clifton, New Jersey The fi rst was on a French nun with Parkinson’s dis- Polish — pope was pure fantasy before 1978. (973) 207-6024 G³os matki, g³os Boga. ease. Sister Marie Simon-Pierre of the Congregation Before John Paul II, Roman Catholic popes rarely, if Mother’s voice is God’s voice. of the Little Sisters of Catholic Motherhood, who was ever, travelled outside of Italy. John Paul II visited more diagnosed in 2001. The disease worsened in the subse- than 125 countries, logging over 680,000 miles in the 1 ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER. quent years. It was healed after John Paul’s intercession air. This evangelism reanimated the Catholic Church. LABOR DAY (POLAND) in 2005. Here, before us, was a man of God – 2004. Accession of Poland to the Prayers to John Paul II resulted in the man, to be exact – bringing us the European Union a second miracle in 2011. Six years Good News in person. If God was Congratulations 2 Polish Flag Day and Polonia Day (Dzień Flagi Polskiej oraz after his death, a woman was cured not behind this, then St. Christopher Pope John Paul II Œwiêto Polonii) – these two holi- of an aneurism on a major blood ves- certainly had a hand in the matter. days are of rather recent vintage sel in her brain. A neurosurgeon who But as Poles who suffered behind and have yet to gain wide popu- treated the woman, Alejandro Var- the Iron Curtain, and as Polonians NORBERT & RITA KOZIOL larity in Poland. gas Roman, said the disappearance who watched as our family mem- Western Springs, Ill. 3 FEAST OF MARY, of the aneurism had “no scientifi c bers paid the price for a betrayal at QUEEN OF POLAND explanation.” Yalta, perhaps John Paul II’s great- POLISH CONSTITUTION DAY Prayers for the intercession of est miracle was the role he played Œwiêto Trzeciego Maja, banned by the communists, re- saints for cures are as old as the in removing Poland from under emerged following the collapse church itself — older, if you con- Moscow’s boot, a world event that of the regime in 1989. Poland’s sider the tradition’s roots. In many brought about an end to Communist Constitution of 1791 is the sec- ancient societies the spirits and gods control, fi rst in the Eastern Bloc and Celebrating the ond oldest democratic constitu- were believed to make their presence eventually in other satellite coun- Canonization of tion in the world. known through disease. Sacrifi ce tries. From priesthood to papacy, he John Paul II 5 1194. Death of Casimir II and prayer, it was believed, would was not afraid of letting oppressors 7 2004. Death of Waldemar Mile- remove the malady. know their rule denied people their wicz, a Polish journalist and war While non-believers may say rights as human beings. His trips to MR. & MRS. JOHN YESH correspondent who was killed John Paul II’s quick sainthood is more political than Poland during this period inspired leaders and fellow in a drive-by shooting in Iraq Camp Hill, Pa. by a group of Iraqi insurgents. spiritual, the Vatican takes the claim of cures very seri- clergy to unite against the common enemy. 8 ST. STANISLAUS ously. In both cases, the cures were reviewed by Vatican As fans and followers, we can fi ll the pages of books 1989. Adam Michnik’s Gazeta City doctors and theologians, who later declared the le- on the events in John Paul II’s life we can consider mi- Wyborcza begins publica- gitimacy of each miracle. raculous, from surviving an assassination attempt on tion under the rhyming mast- John Paul II’s curing power is not a gift that may his life, to visiting the Western Wall. He survived as a In Memory of head motto, “Nie ma wolnoœci be shared with all. It is, however, another aspect of our laborer under Nazi-control, but found love in his heart bez Solidarnoœci” (“There’s no beloved Saint that makes him more special to us, his to share with the world. One might even say John Paul Manya Dybicz Lewandowski freedom without Solidarity”). Polish countrymen, Poland’s ancestors, and her descen- II’s canonization is a miracle, as it was be the fi rst time Swedesburg - Philadelphia Today, it is the second-largest dants. in history that two popes (with John XXIII) were made Who sang with the Polish newspaper in Poland. Not miracles by canon law, there are acts in John saints at the same time. 9 1931. Death of Albert Michelson, Eucharistic Choir in 1976 physicist (b. 1852). Paul II’s life that one can say were designed at God’s Little did we know on October 16, 1978, that the for Cardinal Karol Wojtyła desk. These were events that changed the world. white smoke rising from the Sistine Chapel would drift 10 1034. Death of Mieszko II Lam- at the First would be Cardinal Wojtyła’s election to the across the globe before it fi nally made its way to Heav- bert 41st Eucharistic Congress 11 MOTHER’S DAY (U.S.) papacy, which broke a four-plus-century-old franchise en. 1573. Henry of Anjou (Henry dominated by Italian cardinals. With Benedict XVI and Thank you, Saint John Paul II! Walezy), became the fi rst elect- ed king of Poland. 12 1364. Founding of Jagiellonian Razem z całym œwi¹tem University Œwiêty Jan Pawel II i 13 1981. Pope John Paul II shot by modlimy siê w intencji naszego a would-be assasin at public Œw. Faustyny módl siê za nami. rodaka Karola Józef Wojtyły, audience in St. Peter’s Square. Also wounded is a Polish Amer- Œwiêtego Jana Pawła II. ica pilgrim from Buff alo, New York, Ann Odre. 15 1942. Founding of the Polish In- Polish National Alliance Lodge 30 stitute of Sciences in America, in New York City, celebrates with all Polonia New York.