Polish church leaders have welcomed renewed calls for the beatification of a popular priest, Father Franciszek Blachnicki (1921-1987), following official confirmation that he was killed by communist secret police agents.
"Most Poles still feel a sense of unfulfilled justice, and the murder of
With the Church still celebrating the Christmas season, columnist David Mills looks back on a request in the 1930s by the Communist Party’s Daily Worker to obtain a Christmas message from Dorothy Day and her Catholic Worker newspaper that would “contribute toward
For many years, faithful Catholics in in communist-ruled postwar Eastern Europe lived amid what is now referred to the Church of Silence. Clergy were targeted, Church activities and schools were shut down or replaced with communist programs. In response to the communist
Russell Shaw writes that “Some years ago, Lee Edwards, a veteran conservative writer and a friend of mine, launched an organization, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, dedicated to “commemorating the more than 100 million victims of communism around the world and