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Articles by Filip Mazurczak

About Filip Mazurczak
Filip Mazurczak is a historian, translator, and journalist. His writing has appeared in First Things, the St. Austin Review, the European Conservative, the National Catholic Register, and many others. He teaches at the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow.
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Observations and lessons from a “poor Church in a rich country.”

March 5, 2024 Filip Mazurczak 11

Despite its optimistic-sounding title, reading God Is Alive in Holland, a short book-length interview with Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht and Primate of the Netherlands, conducted by the Italian journalist Andrea Galli, is […]

The Dispatch

The state of the Catholic Faith in post-COVID Poland

January 3, 2024 Filip Mazurczak 6

In December, the Institute for Catholic Church Statistics published its annual report on the Catholic Church in Poland, the first such yearbook with data obtained after pandemic-era restrictions had been lifted. While the report does […]

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Give Me Liberty tells the inspiring story of Cuban human rights activist

December 18, 2023 Filip Mazurczak 1

David E. Hoffman’s Give Me Liberty: The True Story of Oswaldo Payá is a riveting, much-needed portrait of a fearless Cuban human rights activist who tried to reform Fidel Castro’s dictatorship and whose efforts ultimately […]

Analysis

Why Ratzinger and Wojtyła were correct about liberation theology

September 21, 2023 Filip Mazurczak 16

The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on the final day of 2022 presents a continued opportunity to revisit and evaluate his legacy as a theologian, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the […]

Features

Polish historian grateful for the witness, beatification of Ulma family

September 8, 2023 Filip Mazurczak 6

On Sunday, September 10th, Wiktoria and Józef Ulma, their six children, and their unborn child (Wiktoria began to give birth during her execution) will be beatified in Markowa in southeastern Poland. On March 24, 1944, […]

Essay

Nicolaus Copernicus: Man of mystery, science, and God

August 26, 2023 Filip Mazurczak 8

This year marks the 550th anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus’ birth and the 480th of his death. This provides an opportunity to debunk some of the myths regarding the relationship of the great scientist, thanks to […]

The Dispatch

WYD 2023 was a sign of great hope for the Church in the secularized West

August 9, 2023 Filip Mazurczak 26

This past week I was an eyewitness to hundreds of thousands of young Europeans and Americans adoring the Blessed Sacrament, waiting in long lines for confession, and proudly professing their love for the Church. In […]

Features

Who is Grzegorz Ryś, Archbishop of Lodz, Poland?

July 28, 2023 Filip Mazurczak 16

On September 30th, Pope Francis will create twenty-one new cardinals, eighteen of whom are under eighty and will therefore have the right to vote in a future conclave. They include Grzegorz Ryś, Archbishop of Lodz, […]

Features

Remembering Krakow’s saintly and heroic bishops

May 17, 2023 Filip Mazurczak 2

May 18, 2023 marks the 103rd anniversary of the birth of Pope St. John Paul II, who served as Archbishop of Krakow from 1964 to 1978. Much has been written about the Polish pope’s saintliness, […]

Features

The Pope’s Exorcist would make Dan Brown proud

April 28, 2023 Filip Mazurczak 13

Father Gabriele Amorth (1925-2016), the Italian Pauline priest who for many years served as the exorcist of the Diocese of Rome, performed tens of thousands of exorcisms and as a popular and prolific author warned […]

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