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December 2016

December 05, 2016

Religion: Either Everything, or Nothing

"Religion is either everything, or it is nothing." --Pawel Rojek, Avant-garde Conservatism "Christianity has functioned...

August 2016

August 21, 2016

Let Despair be Known as my Ebb-tide

Let despair be known as my ebb-tide; but let prayer have its springs, too, brimming,...

August 14, 2016

Last Eyewitness Explains What the Sacrifice of St. Maximilian Kolbe Means

Let us remember that love lives through sacrifice and is nourished by giving. Without sacrifice...

August 01, 2016

Pope Francis Wasn’t Silent About Auschwitz; He Deconstructed It Instead

There's plenty of talk about Francis's silence during his visit to Auschwitz last week. This...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

TOP 10 Books on the Ecstatic Pessimism of the Polish Soul

As a former university instructor I cannot help wondering what books I would've assigned to...

July 28, 2016

Demons of Liberal Democracy Haunt Poland After the Hell of Communism

. . . Sometimes in museums the paintings speak to me and irony suddenly vanishes....

July 25, 2016

7 Places You Have to Visit During World Youth Day to Get a Real Feel for the Soul of Krakow

If I forget you, O Krakow, let my right hand wither. These are my "I'm...

June 2016

June 10, 2016

Why Speak of Theocracy in Poland When Confessional States Make up the Secular West?

Poland is not becoming a theocracy over abortion, because it was never a secular democracy...

April 2016

April 14, 2016

Happy 1050th Birthday Poland!

I ran across the oldest recorded text in Poland's history today. The hymn in question...

February 2016

February 02, 2016

Happy Feast of Our Lady of Thunder Candles!

February 2nd is the feast of Our Lady of Thunder Candles (Matki Gromnicznej). That's correct....

October 2015

October 05, 2015

Polish Gay Prelate Charamsa Sells Out Both Catholicism & Gay Rights

The coverage of the Pre-Synod coming out party of Monsignor Charamsa is amusingly chaotic. The...

September 2015

September 16, 2015

Zygmunt Bauman: From Liquid Modernity to Theology

Today was a busy day, so this post will come quickly, late, and in some...

September 02, 2015

New Historical Mists Shower Auschwitz with Hope

By now you might be past your knee-jerk reactions to the "showers" (misters, to be...

May 2015

May 11, 2015

Where in the Continent is the Heart of Europe?

Obsessively discussing the demise of Europe is one of the favorite preoccupations of those on...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Nietzsche’s Flame of Eternity: It’s Not a Wonderful Philosophy Nor Life

Leszek Kolakowski, author of philosophical barnburners such as Metaphysical Horror and Religion: If There Is...

April 24, 2015

On the Polish Origins of the Concept of Genocide & Its Armenian Roots

The term genocide seems ancient. It is actually a clumsy Greek-Latin hybrid coined by a...

April 20, 2015

FBI Head Comey is Maliciously Wrong on Holocaust Facts about Poland

It's been said the victors write the history books. This should not be equated...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

Ida and Avoiding Silence at Any Cost

My initial reflections upon Ida concentrated upon the historical context of the film, about what...

February 23, 2015

1 Thing Nobody Noticed about Oscar Best Foreign Film Winner Ida

Great art always shows you more than you are prepared to see. While watching Ida...

November 2014

November 07, 2014

Enter Another Dimension: All Souls and All Saints in Poland

I've been going through some old writings in preparation for a conference I'll participate in...

September 2014

September 01, 2014

Holocaust in Context: Auden’s September 1, 1939

Faulkner wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past," in his Requiem for...

August 2014

August 06, 2014

The Polish Heart of Phenomenology in English Translation

I think I first encountered the notion of Krakow as the capital of phenomenology...

November 2013

November 20, 2013

Prominent Polish Prelates and the Poisonous Fruit of Unbridled Capitalism (Catholiclandia III)

Wyszynski and Wojtyla upon the latter's election as pope. The first thing you...

July 2013

July 26, 2013

Orientalist Dreams of Poland as Catholiclandia (Part II)

Yesterday kicked off a series of posts about the orientalization of Poland among Western scholars....

July 25, 2013

Orientalist Dreams of Poland as Catholiclandia (Part I)

There are plenty of stereotypes floating in the seas of religious punditry. The so-called pundits...

July 24, 2013

Eternity in a Dunghill: Infinity and Perspective

You've no doubt encountered Blake's "Auguries of Innocence." It begins with: To see a world...

July 18, 2013

Coetzee Demolishes Greek Harmony With Christian Agony

The best religious novelist of our time isn't, as far as I know, a Christian...

July 05, 2013

Acquainted with the Night: The Art of Jerzy Nowosielski (An IMAGE Journal Essay)

What follows is an essay I published in IMAGE Journal with the help of the Starmach...

June 2013

June 27, 2013

Debunking Science & Religion Myths: The Copernican Revolution Wasn't a Demotion

The science and religion debates are chock-full of ideological myths. Nowadays the scientific side usually...

June 25, 2013

Zbigniew Herbert Tempers the Rational Fury

Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998) is one of the two greatest Polish poets of the 20th century....