He was active in the Polish political opposition against the authoritarian rule, joined the Solidarity movement for human and workers’ rights as well as democracy and independence from the USSR.

He was imprisoned after Martial law in Poland against Solidarity was imposed by a Military Junta in December 1981.

In 1988, he joined Tygodnik Powszechny, a liberal Catholic weekly in Kraków as Political Editor.

After the death of the longtime editor of Tygodnik Powszechny, Jerzy Turowicz in 1999, he joined the staff of Polityka weekly news magazine[3] in Warsaw, where he writes about the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and worldwide and other religions in the wider contexts of culture and society, as well as on international relations and literature.

[9] In 2014, President Bronisław Komorowski awarded him the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for outstanding achievements in the democratic transformation of Poland as well as for his contribution to the development of free media and independent journalism.