The Good Maharaja who sheltered Polish children during World War II — By: Catholic News Agency

The 1941 Sikorski-Mayski agreement between the Soviet Union and Poland resulted in the release of tens of thousands of Polish prisoners of war held in the Gulag and other Soviet camps. Their number included thousands of displaced children, many of whom were orphans. No one wanted these children; they couldn’t return to Nazi-occupied Poland, and…

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Ukraine bishop at New York Encounter: War begins when man rejects God from his heart — By: Catholic News Agency

Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, survival means remaining in relationship with Christ and in community with one another, according to a delegation of Ukrainian Catholic Church leaders who gave their testimony at the New York Encounter on Feb. 14. Bishop Pavlo Honcharuk of Kharkiv and Father Wojciech Stasiewicz, director of Caritas-Spes of the Kharkiv-Zaporizhia Diocese,…

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Slowing of religious decline points to ‘shifting’ faith landscape, experts say at New York Encounter — By: Catholic News Agency

Recent claims of an emerging religious revival in the West may overstate the case, but there are clear signs that belief in God is rising, experts said Saturday at the New York Encounter, the annual conference hosted by members of Communion and Liberation. Speaking at the gathering, Chip Rotolo, a research associate at the Pew…

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The Maturation of the Traditional Movement after Summorum Pontificum — By: OnePeterFive

It’s difficult to say exactly when I began the turn towards traditional Catholicism—it was, after all, a gradual process spanning several years with many side quests and meanders along the way. It’s easier to think of it in term of milestones rather than a single moment of “conversion.” One of these milestones was definitely around…

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