A serious problem and paradox of the modern EU is the fact that, despite constant emphasis on the importance of diversity, it cannot accept the divers...
Considering the history of Polish national uprisings of the nineteenth century, one can learn heroism, patriotism, but not effectiveness, geopolitics ...
Communists put their knowledge of political craftsmanship to great use, while political amateurs prevailed on the side of the former anti-communist op...
In the country of Pope John Paul II, “Solidarity” launched a mechanism in which power – at least in symbolic terms – was returned to the sovereign, th...
When the year 2020 began those six months ago, we were aware that the beginning of a new decade of the 21st century would be a time of both change and...
The press called the Poles’ victory “the Miracle on the Vistula” in a clear reference to “the Miracle on the Marne” of World War I, when the French-Br...
The Battle of Warsaw in 1920 was not only a culminating moment of the Polish-Bolshevik war but also one of the decisive events in the history of Europ...
In Ireland John Paul II is most remembered for his heartfelt plea in Drogheda – greeted by wild applause - “in language of passionate pleading” to th...
He was a national authority in the very meaning that Hannah Arendt once gave this concept: he gave advice that could not be ignored in Poland without ...
In some sense John Paul II was the last European pope: he was the successor to the last Italian popes (Paul VI and the very brief papacy of John Paul ...
John Paul II argued that – in the new “computer culture” – the Church could inform the world faster about its credo as well as explain its position on...
St. John Paul II made history in February 1981 becoming the first pontiff to visit Japan, a non-Christian country with a deep and faithful hidden Chri...
The Pope’s message largely contributed to the creation of “Solidarity”, perhaps the largest in history social movement considering the size of the cou...
While the efforts of governments in various countries concentrate on fighting COVID-19, Russia conducts an operation of disinformation and propaganda,...
Speech by President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda during commemorative ceremony of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi ...