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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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Ten great works about the life and thought of Pope St. John Paul II

May 12, 2020 Filip Mazurczak 1

The hundredth anniversary of the birth of St. John Paul II, one of the most influential popes in Church history, will be on Monday May 18. Because of COVID-19 lockdown measures, some of us have […]

Features

The Two Popes is full of serious errors—and several surprises

December 18, 2019 Filip Mazurczak 46

I could write a pamphlet, perhaps even a short book, about all the factual errors and distortions in Brazilian director Fernando Mereilles’ film The Two Popes. However, despite the film’s numerous inaccuracies, a couple of […]

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King John III Sobieski: Catholic statesman, savior of Europe, victim of political correctness

December 16, 2019 Filip Mazurczak 15

On September 12, 1683, the Christian Coalition led by King John III Sobieski defeated the Turks at the gates of Vienna, thus saving Christendom. Venimus, vidimus, Deus vincit, the Polish monarch wrote in a letter […]

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Faith, science, and evolution: A conversation with Dr. Kenneth R. Miller

November 19, 2019 Filip Mazurczak 19

Kenneth R. Miller is Professor of Biology and Royce Family Professor for Teaching Excellence at Brown University. He is the co-author (with Joseph Levine) of Biology, published by Pearson, the most widely used high school […]

Features

How Catholic is Poland’s “Law and Justice” Party?

October 21, 2019 Filip Mazurczak 7

On Sunday, October 13th, the Law and Justice party won 43.59 percent of the vote in Poland’s parliamentary elections, giving it a majority of 235 seats in the Sejm, the lower chamber of Poland’s Parliament. […]

Features

World War II and the witness of three future popes

September 9, 2019 Filip Mazurczak 11

This month marks the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, the bloodiest conflict in human history that claimed an astonishing 85 million human lives, the majority of them civilians. Amidst this bloody […]

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Krakow’s Archbishop Jędraszewski under fire for remarks about “rainbow plague”

August 16, 2019 Filip Mazurczak 20

When Marek Jędraszewski was nominated by Pope Francis to be the new archbishop of Krakow, I wrote that he was a strong culture warrior unafraid of proclaiming the Church’s teaching in an uncompromising way. In […]

Features

An unusual, complicated European nation seeks to rediscover its Christian culture

May 30, 2019 Filip Mazurczak 11

The speakers of a Romance language surrounded by a sea of Slavs and Hungarians, and inhabiting a former Roman province once home to Ovid, the Romanians have always been an unusual European nation. With regards […]

Features

The solitary and sacrificial witness of Blessed Franz Jägerstätter

May 21, 2019 Filip Mazurczak 8

Jesus told His apostles: “You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved” (Matt 10: 22). It is difficult to think of another venerated Catholic […]

Film & Music

Dogma at 20: Revisiting Generation X’s controversial manifesto of faith

May 14, 2019 Filip Mazurczak 9

Twenty years ago, Kevin Smith’s Dogma had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The film aroused enormous controversy. A dispassionate look at the film’s message cloaked underneath a shell of vulgar dialogue is valuable […]

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