The article discusses the role of the press in the socio- economic activities of the Catholic Action movement in the interwar period by focusing on the Diocese of Siedlce in the 1930s. An analysis of the content of three regional magazines, Wiadomości Diecezjalne Podlaskie (The Podlasie Diocesan News), Głos Podlaski (The Voice of Podlasie) and Podlaski Miesięcznik Katolicki (The Podlasie Catholic Monthly) indicates that all of them played an important role in founding new branches of the Catholic Action, mobilizing its members to get involved in the Action's economic and social projects, and encouraging them to join various initiatives in the sphere of defence and state security.

This article analyses the representation of the Spanish Civil War addressed to the readers of the Polish local press in Siedlce, then in the Voivodship of Lublin. In the period 1936–1939 Siedlce could boast of having three newspapers — the weekly Głos Podlaski published by the Diocesan Curia Siedlce, and two trimensuals, Ziemia Siedlecka and Życie Podlasia, both affiliated with the ruling Sanacja. Each of them showed an unflagging interest in the Spanish war, treated as a violent clash of the opposed forces of left-wing Republicanism and nationalism.

This article examines the coverage of German themes in Polish local press by focusing on a number of newspapers and periodicals published at Siedlce in the 1930s, i.e. Gazeta Podlaska, Nowa Gazeta Podlaska, Głos Podlaski, Ziemia Siedlecka, Wiadomości Diecezjalne Podlaskie and Życie Podlasia.