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Our profound ignorance of the crimes of Communism

July 26, 2019 Dr. Paul Kengor 2

According to a stunning report by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, one-third of Millennials (32%) “believe more people were killed under George W. Bush […]

Features

“Chernobyl” offers a grim, dramatic indictment of socialism

June 12, 2019 Derya M. Little 15

Back in 1986, the Turkish government had to stop giving me and other elementary school children tiny packages of hazelnuts because somewhere in the USSR something had exploded, and somehow that explosion had poisoned the […]

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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 […]

Features

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk discusses solidarity, patriotism, power for a free Ukraine

September 20, 2018 Deborah Castellano Lubov 2

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk says that a free Ukraine is strengthened by solidarity and patriotism, while noting that “patriotic feelings are neutral” and “they must be evangelized.” His Beatitude recalls the so-called revolution of dignity […]

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After the Soviets, a Lithuanian archbishop wants “a deeper meaning of freedom” for his people

July 25, 2018 Deborah Castellano Lubov 4

Lithuanian Christians anticipate Pope Francis’ visit in September while celebrating their country’s 100th anniversary of independence. […]

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 […]

Ecclesia et Civitas

Is America a revolutionary ideological state?

February 2, 2018 James Kalb 13

We find ourselves in an increasingly ideological society whose ideology is ever more anti-human, anti-Catholic, and compulsory. […]

Features

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, […]

The Dispatch

Murderers’ Row, Soviet-style

November 1, 2017 George Weigel 4

In the moral universe of Bolshevism, two plus two could indeed equal five – or seven, or three, or whatever the Revolution required. […]

Interview

A “tough guy” priest, in the gulag and beyond

September 17, 2017 Jim Graves 7

Father Walter Ciszek is known for his courage while imprisoned in the Soviet Union. But his spiritual writings show him to be “a saint of […]

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