1946: A New Dawn for Polish Catholics
by Raymond J. de SouzaAnniversaries make clear the history that was hidden at the time. Continue Reading »
Anniversaries make clear the history that was hidden at the time. Continue Reading »
Colonel Ryszard Kukliński took a courageous stand against communism’s culture of death, knowing that freedom is never cost-free. Continue Reading »
Three decades of work and conversation in Poland have shaped me in ways I would not have thought possible thirty years ago. Continue Reading »
Centesimus Annus, like all great encyclicals, has endured and matured over time. 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 »