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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.
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 […]

The Dispatch

A unique credo and affirmation of faith by a distinctive mind

March 11, 2019 Filip Mazurczak 5

From the rise of the “nones” to the eschewing of Christianity for Eastern spiritual practices such as yoga, the American religious landscape has been changing for decades. Clearly, the watershed moment was the countercultural 1960s. […]

Features

Three Common Myths about Archbishop Oscar Romero

October 13, 2018 Filip Mazurczak 18

On Sunday, Pope Francis will canonize seven new saints. The best-known of them are Pope Paul VI (1897-1978), who served the Church as supreme pontiff from 1963 to 1978, and Archbishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980), the […]

Features

Pope Francis to visit Baltic republics, the land of Europe’s last pagans

September 21, 2018 Filip Mazurczak 7

On September 22-25, Francis will become the first pope since St. John Paul II twenty-five years earlier to visit the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, a cultural and religious melting pot populated by […]

Books

Two new books explore Pope St. John Paul II’s moral convictions, intellectual legacy

June 18, 2018 Filip Mazurczak 2

A Pope and a President by Paul Kengor and Wind From Heaven by Monika Jablonska delve into many unknown or overlooked aspects of John Paul’s […]

Analysis

Polish Bishops’ Amoris Laetitia guidelines stress discernment and compassion, in continuity with Church doctrine

June 12, 2018 Filip Mazurczak 11

The much anticipated guidelines reflect what already is common pastoral practice in Poland, emphasizing accompaniment but uncompromising in their fidelity to the Church’s teaching. […]

Features

As vote approaches, Irish pro-lifers fight to save the Eighth

May 21, 2018 Filip Mazurczak 7

If Ireland votes to legalize abortion on Friday, this would be a defeat not only for the Irish pro-life movement, but also for pro-lifers across […]

Analysis

Can Pope Francis persuade the Irish to choose life?

March 14, 2018 Filip Mazurczak 16

In 2015, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin called Ireland’s legalization of same-sex “marriage” a “defeat for humanity.” If the Irish legalize abortion, this […]

Features

Remembering St. John Paul II’s controversial 1987 pilgrimage to Chile

January 14, 2018 Filip Mazurczak 10

Now is an appropriate time to recall that historic visit and the role that John Paul II and the Chilean bishops played in Chile’s peaceful […]

Features

Poland poised to ban eugenic abortion

December 27, 2017 Filip Mazurczak 5

Last year, amid large protests, Poland failed to pass a total abortion ban. Today, the country seems poised to ban eugenic abortion. […]

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