In recent months, as Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has shocked the world, Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), has emerged as a brave moral leader, recalling such […]
The Polish documentary Powołany (“Called”), which includes dramatized sequences, was released on YouTube on Holy Thursday, the day of the institution of the priesthood, this year. It presents the lives of seven people whose lives […]
Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine continues claim thousands of civilian lives and has precipitated the biggest refugee crisis in post-World War II Europe. Thus, it seems timely to reflect on the relationship of St. […]
According to the most recent data from Poland’s border guard service, at the time of writing there are nearly two million Ukrainian refugees in the country. Polish society has been generous in assisting Ukrainians fleeing […]
Although all Communist regimes persecuted religion to varying degrees, nowhere did the anti-religious campaign employ such diabolically creative methods of cruelty, and nowhere was it as fatally thorough, as in Albania. Isolated from the rest […]
Father Jan Franciszek Macha, a Polish priest who was executed by the Gestapo for his charitable work during the dark night of World War II at the age of just twenty-eight, will be beatified in […]
On Sunday, Pope Francis will arrive in Budapest to celebrate the final Mass of the Fifty-Second International Eucharistic Congress. Although religious practice remains low in Hungarian society, the country’s government, in power since 2010, is […]
On September 12-15, Pope Francis will travel to Slovakia, making this the fourth papal pilgrimage to the East-Central European nation after St. John Paul II’s visit to then-Czechoslovakia in 1990 (which included Bratislava) and trips […]
Jonathan Huener’s new study The Polish Catholic Church Under German Occupation: The Reichsgau Wartheland, 1939-1945 is a valuable addition to the discussion on the relationship between Nazism and Christianity. The book’s impact is occasionally limited […]
As a non-theologian, I do not feel competent to respond to the controversial theological views of the recently deceased Swiss-German dissident theologian Hans Küng, such as his rejection of the dogma of papal infallibility. But […]
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