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“The Monk by the Sea,” by Caspar David Friedrich, 1774–1840, German. (Wikimedia Commons)

The vindication of Caspar David Friedrich

Elizabeth Lev|Sep 9, 2024|7 Min Read

D-Day

News

On D-Day anniversary, Pope Francis prays for men who start and prolong wars

Hannah Brockhaus|Jun 6, 2024|3 Min Read

Wiktoria Ulma is pictured in an undated photo with three of her children and the children of relatives outside the Ulma home in Markowa, a village in southeastern Poland. Wikotria, her husband, Józef, and their seven children were executed March 24, 1944, by Nazis who discovered that the family had been sheltering eight Jews who had escaped internment by German occupying forces. Ulma girls Stasia and Basia are pictured in the middle near their mother, who is holding son Wlodzimierz. (CNS photo courtesy National Remembrance Institute)

Vatican clarifies martyrdom of child born during World War II massacre

Carol Glatz|Sep 5, 2023|3 Min Read

Ulma

Faith

Polish family murdered by Nazis along with Jews they helped hide to be beatified Sept. 10

Paulina Guzik|Feb 15, 2023|5 Min Read

German troops march through Warsaw, Poland, in September 1939. The Polish bishops' conference has cautiously endorsed government demands for $1.29 trillion reparations from Germany for World War II damage. (CNS photo/National Archives)

World

Polish church backs new war reparations, but stresses reconciliation

Jonathan Luxmoore|Sep 6, 2022|3 Min Read

Sisters of St. Elizabeth read at a Mass in Wroclaw, Poland, June 11, 2022; the Mass featured the beatification of 10 Polish members of the order who were killed by Russian soldiers at the end of World War II. (CNS photo/courtesy Congregation of Sisters of St. Elizabeth)

Pope Francis praises 'example of faith' of newly beatified Polish nuns martyred in WWII

Catholic News Agency|Jun 12, 2022|3 Min Read

Stefania Łącka, pictured in 1945. (Public domain via CNA)

Faith

Sainthood cause opened for Polish Catholic known as ‘earthly guardian angel’ of Auschwitz

Catholic News Agency|Aug 31, 2021|3 Min Read

Wiktoria Ulma with six of her children. (The Ulma Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews in World War II via CNA)

Faith

Polish Catholic family, killed by Nazis for helping Jews, on path to beatification

Catholic News Agency|Mar 24, 2021|4 Min Read

Pope Pius XII. (Public domain via CNA)

Book gives more insight into the actions of Pius XII and his 'bureau' during WWII

Andrea Gagliarducci|Jan 7, 2021|4 Min Read

Cardinal Stepinac. (Public domain via CNA)

Faith

How one Croatian cardinal saved thousands of Jewish lives

Mary Farrow|Dec 21, 2020|18 Min Read

Pope Pius XII. (Public domain via CNA)

How Pius XII treated Jewish orphans after World War II

Kevin Jones|Sep 9, 2020|8 Min Read

(Photo courtesy of the Polish bishops' conference via CNA)

World

Polish bishops recall service of priests, nuns during Warsaw Uprising

Catholic News Agency|Aug 7, 2020|3 Min Read

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