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After Reaching Outward, Poland Looks Back to Its Roots - New York Times |
 | | Ewa Haduniu of Wislica praying in the Basilica of the Birth of Blessed Virgin Mary. |
| | WISLICA, Poland — This modest village in central Poland, standing in the shadow of the Basilica of the Birth of Blessed Virgin Mary, finds itself reaching back to its deepest roots soon after Poland, and much of Central Europe, won the prizes of membership in NATO and the European Union. |
| | Many of the village’s 600 residents have concluded with dismay that the tradition represented by their revered 14th-century basilica, which is closely connected to the unifying kings of Poland’s past, is disappearing. |
| www.nytimes.com /2006/07/25/world/europe/25poland.html?ex=1311480000&en=455c380bd079635d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (984 words) |
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