The Europe of Dialogue – Convention agenda

Opening

• Marcin Przeciszewski, Chairman of the
  Organising Committee of the Convention

Welcoming Address

• Cardinal Józef Glemp, Primate of Poland
• Archbishop Jeremiasz, Eastern Orthodox
  Archbishop of Wrocław and Szczecin, President of the Polish Ecumenical
  Council

Greetings

• Stanisław Mikołajczak, Marshal of Wielkopolska
  Voivodeship

Message from the Holy Father
Benedict XVI

• presented by a representative of the Holy See

Message from Bartholomeos I,
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

• presented by a representative of the Patriarch

• Jarosław Pietras, Polish Minister for European
  Affairs

• Ján Figel’, EU Commissioner for Education,
  Training, Culture and Multilingualism

• Archbishop Henryk Muszyński, Metropolitan of
  Gniezno

• Archbishop Ioannis Zizioulas, Eastern Orthodox
  Metropolitan of Pergamon

John Paul II – Master of
Dialogue

• Maciej Zięba OP, Provincial of Polish
  Dominicans, Director of the Tertio Millennio Institute

• Danuta Hübner, EU Commissioner for Regional
  Policy, 
• Mona Siddiqui, Director of the Centre for the
  Study of Islam, University of Glasgow, 
• Hanna Suchocka, former Prime Minister of
  Poland, Ambassador of Poland to the Holy See, 
• Rocco Buttiglione, Italian Minister for
  Culture, 
• Andre Glucksmann, professor of
  philosophy, 
• Shevah Weiss, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council

Moderated by Kamil Durczok (TVP)
Questions from the Audience

College Debate about the role of Christians in contemporary culture
The Christian Culture –
Between the Rebirth of Christianitas and a Christian Ghetto

• Chantal Millon Delsol, professor of
  philosophy, 
• Teresa Maria Reklewska, the author of stained
  glasses used in the artistic project of the Convention, 
• Daniel Cibotea, Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan,
  Jassy (Romania),
• Marek Izdebski, bishop of the
  Evangelical-Reformed Church in Poland, 
• Myroslav Marynovych, Deputy President of the
  Ukrainian Catholic University, 
• Gabriel Nissim OP, The World Catholic
  Association for Communication, 
• Archbishop Józef Życiński, Metropolitan of
  Lublin, philosopher

Moderated by Piotr Marciniak (TVN 24)
Questions from the Audience

Dialogue between the Churches
and the European Union in the framework of the Constitution for Europe

• Danuta Hübner, EU Commissioner for Regional
  Policy; 
• Rev. Aldo Giordano, CCEE Secretary
  General; 
• Rev. Rüdiger Noll, Director of the “Church and
  Society” Commission, KEK Associate General Secretary; 
• Jarosław Pietras, Polish Minister for European
  Affairs; 
• Rev. Noël Treanor, COMECE Secretary
  General; 
• Tadeusz Zieliński, professor of theology,
  Christian Academy of Theology

Moderated by Tomasz Dostatni OP

Moderated by Fr. Tomasz Dostatni OP
Questions from the Audience

Poland – a Catholic One or an
Ecumenical One? (in Polish only)

• Zdzisław Bielecki, Co-president of the Joint
  Council of Catholics and Muslims
• Jerzy Buzek, former Prime Minister of Poland,
  Lutheran, 
• rev. Michał Czajkowski, Catholic theologian,
  co-Chairman of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews, 
• Marek Jurek, politician, essayist, 
• Michał Klinger, Eastern Orthodox theologian,
  former Ambassador of Poland to Romania, 
• Mufti Tomasz Miśkiewicz, head of the Polish
  Muslims’ Association,
• Archbishop Henryk Muszyński, Metropolitan of
  Gniezno, 
• Rev. Lech Tranda, pastor of the Warsaw
  Evangelical-Reformed parish,
• Shevah Weiss, former Ambassador of Israel to
  Poland

Moderated by Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska (TVN 24)
Questions from the Audience

• Orthodox choir „Oktoich” of Wrocław; 
• Visual Ministry Gospel Choir of
  London; 
• „Arka Noego”, 
• the Convention’s choir; 

soloist – Mieczysław Szcześniak;
artistic supervisor – Marcin Pospieszalski.
The message of the concert: “Music of Christians – Music of Unity“.
Three testimonies of faith will be given during the concert: by

• Fr. Daniel Ange (Roman-Catholic
  Church), 
• Rev. Leszek Czyż (Evangelical-Lutheran Church
  in Poland), 
• Rev. Nicolae Tanase (Romanian Orthodox Church).

• Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the
  Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity

• Bishop Hilarion, bishop of Vienna and Austria,
  Representative of the Russian Orthodox Church to the European
  Institutions in Brussels

• Bishop Wolfgang Huber, President of the Council
  of the Evangelical Church in Germany, bishop of the Evangelical Church
  of Berlin, Brandenburg, and Silesian Upper Lusatia

• Cardinal Walter Kasper, 
• Bishop Hilarion, 
• Bishop Wolfgang Huber

Moderated by Tomasz Królak (KAI – Catholic Information Agency)
Questions from the Audience

Masters of Dialogue – witnesses

• Fr. Daniel Ange, founder of “Jeunesse Lumiere”,
  an international Catholic school of prayer and evangelization, 
• Michaela Borrmann, Evangelical
  theologian 
• Rev. Nicolae Tanase, founder of the „Pro Vita”
  association in Romania, 
• Bishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the
  Catholic Biblical Federation, special envoy of the Holy See during the
  war in Kosovo

• Władysław Bartoszewski, former Minister of
  Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, 
• Bishop Wolfgang Huber, President of the Council
  of the Evangelical Church in Germany, 
• Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of
  Germany, 
• Cardinal Karl Lehmann, President of the
  Conference of German Bishops, 
• Tadeusz Mazowiecki, former Prime Minister of
  Poland,  
• Markus Meckel, Chairman of the German and
  Polish parliamentary group in the Bundestag, 
• Hans Joachim Meyer, President of ZdK(Central
  Committee of German Catholics), 
• Archbishop Józef Michalik, President of the
  Conference of Polish Bishops

Moderated by Stephan Raabe, director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
in Poland with introductory remarks by Archbishop Henryk Muszyński

English
translation avaliable: #4, #6, #11

1. Dialogue in marriage and
the family
or “How to sustain love at home through
tick and thin?”
Moderator: Jerzy Grzybowski, “Encounters of Married Couples”
Experts:

• Deaconess Aleksandra Błahut-Kowalczyk,
  Evangelical theologian
• Elżbieta Czykwin, Institute of Sociology,
  Białystok University
• Lucyna and Ryszard Montusiewicz, (KAI Isreal,
  The Neocatechumenal Way
• Fr. Bronisław Rosik SAC, Catholic Anti-Drug
  Association KARAN
• Elżbieta and Witold Kowalczyk „Home Church”

Co-moderators: Anna Kurzeja, Magdalena Dalbor (Gniezno)

2. Dialogue in a local
community
or “Between the mayor, the pastor and the
citizen”
Moderator: Przemysław Fenrych, Foundation of the Local Democracy
Developement
Participants, expercts:

• Fr. Sławomir Kokorzycki, parish priest in
  Korytów
• Adam Pastucha, head of the commune council,
  Dębowiec n. Skoczów
• Przemysław Radwan, School of Leaders
• Grzegorz Stopiński, chaiman of the city
  council, Wrocław

Dialogue in a parish

or “Can the clergy and the laity trust
each other?”     
Moderator: Marek Kosacz OP
Experts, Participants:

• Prof. Elżbieta Firlit, sociologist of religion,
  Warsaw School of Economics (SGH)
• Jarosław Charkiewicz, The Othodox Internet
  Service
• Rev. Grzegorz Dróżdż, parish priest in Cegłów,
  The Old-Catholic Mariavite Church
• Rev. Jan Kojło, parish priest and director of
  Radio Orthodoxia in Białystok
• Dr Maciej Lis, diocesan curator of the Wrocław
  Diocese of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession of the
  Republic of Poland

4. Dialogue between Poles and
Immigrants
or “The Outlaws” in the Polish school
Moderators: Krzysztof Stanowski (Lublin), Anna Bendyn (Gniezno)
Education for Democracy Foundation
Participants:

• Malika Abdulwachabowa, Chechen activist
• Ton Van Anh, editor of the Vietnamese Cau Vong
  magazine issued in Poland
• Sr. Anna Agnieszka, little sister of Jesus
• Norbert Frejek SJ, Angelus Silesius Meeting
  Centre, Wrocław
• Simon Mol, Association of Refugees of the
  Republic of Poland
• Agata Skowron-Nalborczyk, Department of
  European Islam, Warsaw University

5. Dialogue of
“ecclesiastical” and “secular” volunteers  
or “Volunteers of the love of the
neighbour – step forward!”
Moderator: Piotr Czekierda, Angelus Silesius House of Meetings
Participants:

• Anna Sieprawska, Vice-Chairmwoman of the Cracow
  Club of Catholic Intelligentsia, coordinator of the Ombudsman’s
  programme titled „Education for Development”
• Ewa Wunsz, coordinator for voluntary work of
  the Deacony of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession
• Marek Masalski, Director of the Eleos Eastern
  Orthodox Metropolitan Centre of Charity  Fr. Mieczysław
  Puzewicz, Catholic Association of Youth from Lublin
• Jakub Wygnański, Klon/Jawor Association, Forum
  of Nongovernmental Initiatives

6. Dialogue between “blockers”
and “the doomed for success”
or “Are the young a generation ‘nothing?”

Moderator: Szymon Hołownia, Rzeczpospolita
Experts, Participants:

• Fr. Daniel Ange, founder of the Jeunesse
  Lumière international Catholic school of prayer and evangelisation
• Fr. Leszek Czyż, Centre for Mission and
  Evangelisation the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession
• Maria Rogaczewska, Ph.D. student of sociology,
  Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University
• Aleksander Zioło, Workshops of Sociological
  Analyses, Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University

7. Dialogue between the poor
and the rich
or “Are we helpless in the face of
poverty?”
Moderator: Zdzisław Bielecki
Participants, experts: 

• Sr. Małgorzata Chmielewska, “Chleb Życia”
  Community
• Wanda Falk, General Director of the Deacony of
  the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession
• Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, the former president
  of the National Bank of Poland
• Zbigniew Sroczyński, President of the “Hellena”
  Company
• Stefan Wilkanowicz, “Znak” Foundation of
  Christian Culture

8. Dialogue in the workplace
or “Do we need further work on work?” 
       
Moderator: Michał Drozdek, Ignacy Paderewski Christian and Democratic
Institute
Experts:

• Ewa Tomaszewska, „Solidarność“ trade union
• Prof. Juliusz Gardawski, Warsaw School of
  Economics (SGH)
• prof. Mieczysław Kabaj, The Institute of Labour
  and Social Affairs
• Piotr Kapela, Chemin Neuf
• Krzysztof Mądel SJ, theologian, expert of the
  Mirosław Dzielski Centre
• Tomasz Sadowski, founder and president of the
  „Barka” Foundation

9. Dialogue within the Roman
Catholic Church
or “Can we talk to one another?”
Moderator: Anna Maruszeczko, Radio „Józef”
Participants:

• Fr. Adam Boniecki, Tygodnik Powszechny
• Rev. Sławomir Czalej, Gość Niedzielny
• Jarosław Gowin, Znak
• Grzegorz Górny, Fronda, Ozon
• Marek Jurek, Christianitas
• Marcin Przeciszewski, Catholic Information
  Agency
• Mieczysław Ryba, essayist of Nasz Dziennik

10. Polish ecumenical
dialogues
or “Is the Polish ecumenical movement at a
standstill?”
Moderator: Marek Górski, Warsaw “Pax Christi”
Association   
       
       
   
Participants:

• Danuta Baszkowska, The Society for Peace and
  Reconciliation “EFFATHA”
• Rev. Marcin Brzóska, spokesman of the
  Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Poland
• Rev. Andrzej Gontarek, parish priest of the
  Polish-Catholic Church parish in Lublin
• Fr. Włodzimierz Misijuk, Eastern Orthodox
  priest, former Secretary General of the World Federation of
  Organisations of Orthodox Youth Syndesmos
• Prof. Stanisław Celestyn Napiórkowski OFMConv,
  Roman Catholic theologian, 
• Rev. Jan Ostryk, chairman of the Regional
  Department of the Polish Ecumenical Council in Poznań, superintendent
  of the Evangelical Methodist Church
• Grzegorz Polak, essayist, Edipresse
• Tomasz Terlikowski, philosopher, essayist, Ozon

11. Dialogue between believers
and non-believers
or “What do people who do not believe in
anything believe in?”
Moderator: Anna Karoń-Ostrowska, WIĘŹ   
        
Participants:

• Fr. Jerzy Bagrowicz, Institute of Theology,
  Nicolas Copernicus University, Toruń
• Krzysztof Dorosz, essayist
• Rev. Tomáš Halík, Christian Academy in Prague
• Sławomir Sierakowski, Institute of Sociology,
  Warsaw University, Krytyka Polityczna
• Jerzy Sosnowski, pisarz, publicysta
• Sr. Zofia, little sister of Jesus
• Antoni Libera, novelist

• Fr. Tomáš Halík, Prague

• Rabbi Jack Bemporad, Director of the Center for
  Interreligious Understanding, professor at Angelicum University in Rome

• Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, President of the
  Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

• Mustafa Cerič, Great Mufti of
  Bosnia-Herzegovina, Reis ul-Ulema

• Rabbi Jack Bemporad, Archbishop Michael
  Fitzgerald, Great Mufti Mustafa Cerič

Moderated by Krzysztof Renik (Polish Radio)

Debate about the future of religion   
A Post-Christian Continent or
a New Springtime of the Church? What is the Future of Religion in
Europe?

• José Casanova, professor of sociology, New
  York, 
• Krzysztof Dorosz, essayist, former
  editor-in-chief of the Jednota monthly, Warsaw, 
• Tomáš Halík, professor of sociology and
  philosophy, Prague, 
• Paul M. Zulehner, professor of pastoral
  theology, Vienna, 
• Ivan Želev, professor of theology, Sophia

Moderated by Zbigniew Nosowski (monthly review „Więź”)

Prof. Jerzy Kłoczowski, Institute of Central-Eastern Europe
Fathers of European Unity –
since St. Benedict to John Paul II
Moderated by Piotr M. Cywiński, President of the Club of Catholic
Intelligentsia in Warsaw, President of the Council of St. Adalbert’s
Forum

• Władysław Bartoszewski, former Minister of
  Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
• Ján Čarnogurský, former Prime Minister of
  Slovakia, 
• Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of
  Germany, 
• Viktor Orbán, former Prime Minister of
  Hungary, 
• Viktor Jushchenko, President of
  Ukraine, 
• Myroslav Marynovych, Deputy President of the
  Ukrainian Catholic University,
• Tadeusz Mazowiecki, former Prime Minister of
  Poland, 
• Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED
  Group in the European Parliament, 
• Lech Wałęsa, former President of Poland

Moderated by Dorota Gawryluk (TVP)