While many causal factors shaped what we know as the Revolution of 1989, the indispensable factor determining when the revolution happened, and how it happened, was John Paul II. Continue Reading »
The lessons from the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes must be kneaded into the moral and political texture of twenty-first-century free societies. Continue Reading »
The beautification of the Ulma family shows that serving God in this world requires faith that there are things worse than death.
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Our failure to remember our heroes and martyrs of communism is having a dangerous effect on what the next generation knows. Continue Reading »
The Ulmas are relevant exemplars of how to maintain one’s humanity and decency amidst the demoralization of war, which, in 2024, continues to rage in the Holy Land, Ukraine, and Nagorno-Karabakh. Continue Reading »
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka became one of the Jewish people's fiercest defenders, co-founding two underground organizations that helped Jews flee the Nazi genocide. Continue Reading »
The Ulmas lived the parable of the Good Samaritan literally. Continue Reading »
There are in fact a lot of good things going on in Catholicism today. Continue Reading »
April 2, the eighteenth anniversary of John Paul II’s death, was a cold, rainy day in Poland. Yet upwards of 50,000 Poles descended upon Warsaw in a march defending St. John Paul II against slander. Continue Reading »
This instinct for solidarity is one marker of a living Christian culture. Continue Reading »
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