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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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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, […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

Features

The goals and lies of the Polish Left’s smear campaign against John Paul II

March 27, 2023 Filip Mazurczak 5

“A half-truth is worse than a lie and a half.” This Yiddish proverb perfectly describes the dishonest claims that the future Pope St. John Paul II covered up sexual abuse as Archbishop of Krakow (1962-1978), […]

Features

Grass and Ratzinger: Two former POWs with contrasting beliefs and postwar trajectories

January 12, 2023 Filip Mazurczak 8

In the spring of 1945, as a humiliated Germany was being defeated by the Allies, two of the finest German intellectuals of the postwar era – Günter Grass and Joseph Ratzinger – apparently met in […]

The Dispatch

Jailed Catholic Belarusian human rights activist receives Nobel Peace Prize

December 13, 2022 Filip Mazurczak 2

On December 10th, Natallia Pinchuk traveled to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of her husband, jailed Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski (who shared the Prize with the Russian human rights […]

The Dispatch

John Paul I’s charming and wise letters to Jesus, Dickens, Pinocchio, and many more

September 7, 2022 Filip Mazurczak 4

Behind the famously captivating smile of the recently beatified Pope John Paul I, who led the Barque of Peter for just thirty-three days (August 26-September 28) in 1978, lived a wise, gentle soul who beautifully […]

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