Fr. Maciej Zięba, O.P. (1954–2020)
by George WeigelFather Zięba worked tirelessly to make John Paul’s thought and pastoral vision come alive in Polish Catholicism. Continue Reading »
Father Zięba worked tirelessly to make John Paul’s thought and pastoral vision come alive in Polish Catholicism. Continue Reading »
Cardinal Camillo Ruini says reports of miracles—“and what miracles!”—were pouring into the Vicariate of Rome even before the canonization process began. Continue Reading »
On May 18, 1920, a third child and second son was born to a retired Polish army officer, Captain Karol Wojtyła, and his wife, Emilia, in Wadowice, a provincial town some fifty kilometers west of Kraków. At his baptism on June 20, the child was named for his father. To what would have been the . . . . Continue Reading »
Good and evil are so intertwined that sometimes it is hard to recognize which is which. Continue Reading »
I cannot help but recognize in John Paul II a public theologian with a message relevant to our twenty-first-century situation. Continue Reading »
On the centennial of John Paul II's birth, it is worth praising the pope whose death got this cradle Catholic to leave the cradle. Continue Reading »
John Paul II could move millions because the grace of God shone through him. Continue Reading »
A lot of the ideas dominating the synod’s first ten days seem to have been exported from western Europe—including an almost apocalyptic concern for “Mother/Sister Earth,” and a consequent squeamishness about proposing Jesus Christ as Lord and Redeemer. Continue Reading »
The John Paul II Institute has been hijacked by a new pack of Vandals conducting a new sack of Rome. Continue Reading »
The changes at the John Paul II Institute are part of a larger bid to force change in the Church. Continue Reading »