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 »
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 »
Recent research raises questions about the Kremlin's involvement in the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. Continue Reading »
Wojtyła understood the difference between those for whom Marxism was a “fascinating abstraction” and those for whom communism was “an everyday reality.” Continue Reading »
Devotions by timothy murphy north dakota state, 192 pages, $24.95 Not a knee is padded in Timothy Murphy’s new collection. This is no minor point, considering that knee remains for the length of the volume perpetually bent and on the floor. Like the poet himself, these poems—religious . . . . Continue Reading »
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