This Catholic teacher worked to bolster the spiritual and cultural identity of Polish slave laborers, for which she died a martyr’s death in the notorious Ravensbrück concentration camp. Blessed Natalia Tulasiewicz was 39 when she perished in 1945 just as World War
Lou Conter, 102, a Catholic member of the Knights of Columbus and the last survivor of the USS Arizona destroyed in the Japanese Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, passed away April 1.
The new film “Irena’s Vow” brings to life the true story of Irene Gut Opdyke, a young Polish Catholic woman who risked everything to hide Jews from the Nazis during World War II. The two-hour film, based on a Broadway play, hits
When Mokotow prison was opened as the Museum of Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners of the Polish People’s Republic in March, six years after shedding its last inmates, it was agreed regular Masses and liturgies should be held to dispel the site's
The era of divisive debate about Pope Pius XII has been left behind, and now Catholics and Jews, historians and theologians must take up serious and collaborative study, said the co-organizer of a major conference looking at the early results of new
The recently released cinema biopic “Oppenheimer” dramatizes the progressive development, assembly, testing and dropping of the world's first atomic bomb which then led to the detonation of two bombs over Japan in the twilight days of World War II.
In the film's portrayal
With the publicity surrounding the new film “Oppenheimer,” Monsignor Owen Campion writes how evil acts can never be permitted: “This is fundamental. Some actions are too evil ever to be permitted. Take all deadly weapons as an example. Nothing justifies the wholesale,
In early July, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the archbishop of Munich, in Germany, acknowledged, and asked forgiveness for, the conduct of deceased Auxiliary Bishop of Munich Matthias Defregger, who died in 1995. During World War II, Captain Defregger oversaw the destruction of Filetto
Church leaders in Ukraine and Poland have urged "reconciliation and unity" between their countries in the face of Russian aggression as they marked the anniversary of a wave of wartime massacres in Volhynia region.
Throughout the month of July, reconciliation prayers are held
Writer Lisa Hendey reviews “Of Animals and Men,” a new and powerful documentary that looks at the lives of Jan and Antonina Żabiński, who lived at the zookeeper’s villa at the Warsaw Zoo during World War II. Hendey writes: “Through their courageous