Today is the Feast of St. Casimir, patron saint of Poland and Lithuania. Casimir was a pacifist who put serving God above the acquisition of political power. I wrote about him last year on the occasion of his feast day. The only detail worth adding is that Pope Benedict XVI used the eve of Casimir’s […]
Cardinal Józef Glemp, Primate of Poland, submitted his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI, who accepted it.
Glemp spent his youth in a Nazi slave labor camp and later went on to be the spiritual leader of the Solidarność movement, using the pulpit to call for civil disobedience during Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski’s imposition of marshall law. Actions […]
Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manilla died monday. Sin led the overthrow of not one, but two corrupt and oppressive governments. Sin was one of the leaders of the church in the 1980s, along with Cardinal Józef Glemp and Archbishop Oscar Romero, who defied orders to stay out of politics and use the weight of his […]
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