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 […]
There is much pessimism across the West about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on religious practice. Luxembourg’s Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, for example, has grimly predicted that the disruption of normal religious life may have […]
While Argentina legalized abortion on demand until fourteen weeks after gestation and the United States has inaugurated what will unquestionably be a very pro-abortion presidency, Poland has bucked the international pro-abortion trend as its Constitutional […]
Originally published in Japanese in 1982, the novel Sachiko by Shūsaku Endō, perhaps Asia’s best-known Catholic author of fiction, has been recently translated into English by Van C. Gessel. In part a conventional love story […]
On Saturday, Pope Francis created thirteen cardinals in a consistory, nine of whom will be eligible to vote in a future conclave. Of these, two are officials of the Roman curia while just two others […]
Mr. Jones, filmmaker Agnieszka Holland’s 2019 account of Gareth Jones, a brave young Welsh journalist who took great risks to write the truth about the Holodomor, Stalin’s genocidal manmade famine that starved millions of Ukrainians […]
August 15 marks the Feast of the Assumption as well as the centenary of the Battle of Warsaw, during which the Polish Army defeated the Red Army, which sought to not only to conquer Poland […]
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