"Gosc Niedzielny" (or 'Sunday Visitor'), has just become Poland's best-selling weekly, surpassing the leftist Polityka, which was the leader of the market for 20 years. At the same time, other opinion weeklies continue a crisis-attributed downward trend in sales. 
 

Joanna Najfeld reports
 
When Fr. Marek Gancarczyk became editor-in-chief of "Gość Niedzielny", he was asked what would be the target audience of his magazine. He said he wanted to make an opinion weekly for regularly church-going Catholics. Today he says the idea pays off. The Catholic character is most of the time a blessing, and never a curse.
 
'It's a great asset. Because we can be original and that counts in the media. We look at reality in way that is different from other magazines. It's a great value. We don't just not apologize for being Catholic. We are proud of it. I would like 'Gosc Nidzielny' to convey that message subtly on every page - that we are proud of belonging to the Caholic Church,' he told Polish Radio External Service.

Fr. Gancarczyk, has recently made headlines, when he lost a court case brought against him by Alicja Tysiac, a woman who won a wrongful birth suit against Poland at the European Tribunal of Justice. Fr. Marek Gancarczyk was sentenced to a fine for offending Alicja Tysiac when Gosc Niedzielny wrote that the woman "received damages for not killing her child".