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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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‘Baraniak, you can’t act like a swine’: The Salesian bishop who defied Stalinism

March 7, 2026 Filip Mazurczak 0

Polish archbishop Antoni Baraniak was beaten, starved, and interrogated 145 times by the Stalinist regime — and never yielded. […]

The Dispatch

A masterful and educational history of the most famous Christian biologists

March 2, 2026 Filip Mazurczak 3

Niels Arboel’s The Wonder of Creation: The Most Famous Christian Biologists in History is a masterpiece of intellectual history. Of all the natural sciences, perhaps biology is most often seen as at odds with traditional religious faith. […]

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New film depicts the last days and selfless death of St. Maximilian Kolbe

September 25, 2025 Filip Mazurczak 3

The horrors of twentieth-century totalitarianism caused many to ask the ancient question of how a loving God could allow His children to suffer. Writer and director Anthony D’Ambrosio’s new film, Triumph of the Heart, depicts […]

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Remembering three martyrs 80 years after the end of World War II

May 25, 2025 Filip Mazurczak 2

May 8th marked the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II, the bloodiest conflict in human history, in which more than fifty million human lives were lost. Today, our world is once again […]

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In praise of David Lynch’s metaphysical, poetic pilgrim’s tale

January 17, 2025 Filip Mazurczak 1

On January 16, eccentric filmmaker David Lynch passed away at seventy-eight. While Lynch was known for bizarre, experimental, and polarizing work, his 1999 film The Straight Story is one of the most beautiful and profoundly Christian films […]

Features

Reagan‘s accuracy and message undermined by cheesy quality

September 11, 2024 Filip Mazurczak 13

Ronald Wilson Reagan, President of the United States from 1981 to 1989, was one of the great leaders of the twentieth century. His bold defense policy, rejection of détente, and support for anti-communist freedom fighters, […]

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Recalling John Paul II’s significant visit to East Timor

September 9, 2024 Filip Mazurczak 1

On September 9-11, Pope Francis is visiting the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor. Thirty-five years earlier, in 1989, that nation–then amidst a military occupation by Indonesia that many scholars consider it to be […]

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A detailed but sometimes lacking account of the Armenian genocide

August 5, 2024 Filip Mazurczak 1

The Ottoman Empire’s genocide of more than one million Armenians during World War I was one of history’s great tragedies. The Righteous and People of Conscience of the Armenian Genocide by Gérard Dédéyan, Ago Demirdjian, and […]

Books

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 […]

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The state of the Catholic Faith in post-COVID Poland

January 3, 2024 Filip Mazurczak 7

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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