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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.
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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A Catholic guide to great books and films about communism

November 6, 2017 Filip Mazurczak 21

Not only do most young people not learn about the horror and evil wrought by communism, it’s not uncommon to hear seemingly well-informed academics, politicians, […]

Books

Was Hitler a Christian, an atheist, or neither?

October 26, 2017 Filip Mazurczak 28

A new book takes a look at the controversial—and complicated—issue of the religious views of Adolf Hitler. […]

Features

New Archbishop of Lodz, Poland, focuses on traditional spirituality, re-evangelization

September 27, 2017 Filip Mazurczak 5

Few bishops have done as much to advance the new evangelization as Bishop Grzegorz Ryś, now the head of the Archdiocese of Lodz. […]

The Dispatch

One of the world’s least religious countries eyes hosting World Youth Day

August 22, 2017 Filip Mazurczak 10

World Youth Day has been credited with sparking Catholic revival in many places. Undoubtedly, the Czech Republic is a country that desperately needs such revival. […]

Special Report

World Youth Day Krakow—one year later

August 1, 2017 Filip Mazurczak 3

One year ago, Pope Francis encouraged an estimated two million young pilgrims gathered outside Krakow, Poland from all corners of the world to “get off the couch” and begin their adult lives as brave, tenacious […]

The Dispatch

What’s next for Cardinal Müller after puzzling dismissal from CDF?

July 3, 2017 Filip Mazurczak 12

Like many Catholics concerned about the Church’s teaching on marriage and the family, I was disappointed to hear that Pope Francis has not extended the tenure of Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller as Prefect of the […]

The Dispatch

Our Lady of Zeitoun and Christianity in Egypt

April 26, 2017 Filip Mazurczak 7

On April 28-29, Pope Francis will become the second pope after St. John Paul II to visit Egypt. The largest Arab country, Muslim-majority Egypt is home to a large but persecuted Christian minority. Its important […]

The Dispatch

“The Zookeeper’s Wife” a beautiful, moving portrayal of the Polish underground during WWII

April 20, 2017 Filip Mazurczak 0

While Nazi Germany’s premeditated murder of six million Jews has been the subject of more films than perhaps any other historical event, Niki Caro’s The Zookeeper’s Wife is not a typical Holocaust movie. It sheds […]

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