Will the late Pope John Paul II be beatified on the anniversary of his death? asks the Rzeczpospolita daily reporting that the process has advanced considerably and Karol Wojtyła may be pronounced blessed on the fifth anniversary if his passing away on April 2, 2010.
Press reviewed by Danuta Isler.
According to the paper, the information has been confirmed by Vatican sources. A special commission of theologians completed analyzing 2500 pages of the so-called positio or the process documentation which is an important stage in the beatification process. Next, the conclusions of their works are to be presented to a special commission of cardinals. The beatification process of John Paul II started less than three months after his death, that is on June 28, 2005. “It would be very good news (if Karol Wojtyła were pronounced blessed on the anniversary)” bishop Tadeusz Pieronek who was in charge of the auxiliary works of the beatification tribunal is quoted as saying in the daily.
Gazeta Wyborcza writes that Polish companies will start hiring again. It estimates that about 100,000 new jobs will be created this year and 33,000 jobs remain vacant. The Polish Foreign Investment and Information Agency claims that 15,000 workers will find employment in foreign investments to be completed this year. Additionally, 77 new projects are expected to create 20-25,000 jobs – some already this year. Gazeta Wyborcza notes the examples of Indesit, the Italian white-goods producer, which announced its plans to shut down a plant in Turin or the new Alior bank, which already hired 250 people this year and is still looking for 600 more. Andrzej Sadowski of the Adam Smith Centre tells the newspaper that the companies have been withholding recruitments for the last six months, but now this trend appears to have been reversed while Bohdan Wyżnikiewicz, deputy chairman of the Market Economy Research Institute is quoted as saying in Gazeta Wyborcza that the first strike of the crisis is already behind us.
“The time of illness has come to an end, the zloty is gaining value” front pages Dziennik daily reporting that Monday was another good day for the Polish currency when it reached the level of 2,89 against the Swiss franc, 4,45 against the euro and 3,42 against the dollar. “Banks begin to have faith again in the zloty” says economist Ryszard Petru in the daily predicting that the only future catastrophic factor for the currency may be the insolvency of neighboring Ukraine which does not look too likely to happen. Dziennik also publishes an interview with Grażyna Kulczyk, one of the richest Poles whose fortune has recently shrunk by some 30% according to Forbes magazine. “I am not and have never been addicted to luxury. The crisis does not paralyze me but on the contrary – it motivates me to take further actions” says Grażyna Kulczyk in Dziennik. In the interview she also admits that is she were to tighten her belt purchases of works of art would be the first on the list to go.
The Super Express tabloid publishes a story of a 14-year-old Sandra who is a mother of seven-month-old twins! The girls are the “fruit” of her love for four years older school colleague Dawid who turned out to be unprepared to face the tasks of fatherhood and simply disappeared from the girls’ lives. Sandra meanwhile is continuing her junior high education while her 33-year-old mother is... on maternity leave taking care of the twins.