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by bcadmin | Aug 11, 2022 | Auschwitz, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, Cardinal Michael Czerny, Catholic-Jewish relations, lead, News, News Analysis, St. Edith Stein, St. John Paul II | 0 |
For those with long memories, Cardinal Michael Czerny’s ascent is reminiscent of another luminary cardinal with Jewish roots whose star burned bright during the Pope John Paul II years: The late Jean-Marie Lustiger of Paris.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 13, 2022 | Auschwitz, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Holocaust, News, Prayer, St. Maximilian Kolbe | 0 |
People today honor the sacrifice St. Maximilian Kolbe made in giving his life for others, but prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp had some trouble understanding his actions, said a Polish historian.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2021 | Auschwitz, Blessed Mother, Immaculata, Mamuzia, News, Spiritual father, St. Maximilian Kolbe, Your Heart His Home | 0 |
This year, I’ve been spending some time each day with St. Maximilian Kolbe, whose feast day we celebrate this month on the 14th. Before his martyrdom at Auschwitz (he volunteered to take the place of another in the starvation bunker) he was spiritual father to many and spent his life making his mother, “Mamuzia,” as he would refer to the Blessed Mother — that’s Polish for “Mom”— better known and loved. “To the Sacred Heart through the Immaculata,” he would say. I pray his consecration to the Immaculata every day, which begs that we be made fit instruments to draw others to the Sacred Heart.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 26, 2021 | Auschwitz, Ben Affleck, Bill Atkinson, Black Patriots, Broken Places, Christmas on the Square, Christopher Award winners, Christopher Awards, Clouds, Dolly Parton, Family Theater, Holy Cross priest, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, News, Nightline, Patrick Peyton, Pray, The Way Back, U.S. & World News, Zach Sobiech | 0 |
The feature film “The Way Back,” a documentary on Father Patrick Peyton, and a Christmas special featuring Dolly Parton were among this year’s Christopher Award winners.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 18, 2021 | 2021, Auschwitz, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Elizabeth A. Mitchell, Jesus Christ, Michelangelo Buonarroti, News, Our Lady, Pietà, Realizing image of God, St. Edith Stein's “I Am Always in Your Midst”, The Catholic Thing, The Masterpiece of the Divine Artist | 0 |
Elizabeth A. Mitchell: When we seek to re-create within ourselves the beauty His Divine image, we reflect Our Lord’s magnificent artistry.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 26, 2020 | 2020, Adam Woronowicz, Auschwitz, Brad Miner, carbolic acid, Columns, Conventual Franciscans, Fathom Events, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Mateusz Pawlowski, Michal Kondrat, Militia Immaculatae (“Army of the Immaculate One”), News, Rajmund Kolbe, Sainthood, St. Maximilian Kolbe, starvation, The Catholic Thing, Two Crowns: a Review, Virgin Mary | 0 |
Brad Miner reviews a docudrama about the life and martyrdom of Maximilian Kolbe, one of the most extraordinary saints of modern times.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 6, 2020 | Auschwitz, Auschwitz liberation, Featured, Holocaust, Holocaust Memorial Museum, News, Religious persecution, U.S. & World News | 0 |
As the world recognizes the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis’ infamous Auschwitz concentration camp, the vows of “never again” after the Holocaust’s horrors became known threaten to be swallowed up by religious persecution against Christians, Muslims and other groups, said panelists at a Feb. 5 forum at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 27, 2020 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Auschwitz, Communism, Germany, Hitler, Naziism, News, Poland, Putin, Soviets, The Dispatch | 0 |
On January 27, 1945, advancing Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz concentration camp. Today, 75 years after the event, wars are still being fought over who was responsible for World War Two and the many atrocities which […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 21, 2020 | Auschwitz, Krystyna Linden, Michalina Janiszewska, News, U.S. & World News, Warsaw Ghetto | 0 |
Krystyna Linden does not remember much about the first five years of her life, which she spent in a tiny village outside of Warsaw as the daughter of Michalina Janiszewska.
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