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Articles by Filip Mazurczak

About Filip Mazurczak
Filip Mazurczak is a historian, translator, and journalist. His writing has appeared in First Things, the St. Austin Review, the European Conservative, the National Catholic Register, and many others. He teaches at the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow.
The Dispatch

In praise of David Lynch’s metaphysical, poetic pilgrim’s tale

January 17, 2025 Filip Mazurczak 1

On January 16, eccentric filmmaker David Lynch passed away at seventy-eight. While Lynch was known for bizarre, experimental, and polarizing work, his 1999 film The Straight Story is one of the most beautiful and profoundly Christian films […]

Features

Reagan‘s accuracy and message undermined by cheesy quality

September 11, 2024 Filip Mazurczak 13

Ronald Wilson Reagan, President of the United States from 1981 to 1989, was one of the great leaders of the twentieth century. His bold defense policy, rejection of détente, and support for anti-communist freedom fighters, […]

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Recalling John Paul II’s significant visit to East Timor

September 9, 2024 Filip Mazurczak 0

On September 9-11, Pope Francis is visiting the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor. Thirty-five years earlier, in 1989, that nation–then amidst a military occupation by Indonesia that many scholars consider it to be […]

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A detailed but sometimes lacking account of the Armenian genocide

August 5, 2024 Filip Mazurczak 1

The Ottoman Empire’s genocide of more than one million Armenians during World War I was one of history’s great tragedies. The Righteous and People of Conscience of the Armenian Genocide by Gérard Dédéyan, Ago Demirdjian, and […]

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Observations and lessons from a “poor Church in a rich country.”

March 5, 2024 Filip Mazurczak 11

Despite its optimistic-sounding title, reading God Is Alive in Holland, a short book-length interview with Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht and Primate of the Netherlands, conducted by the Italian journalist Andrea Galli, is […]

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The state of the Catholic Faith in post-COVID Poland

January 3, 2024 Filip Mazurczak 7

In December, the Institute for Catholic Church Statistics published its annual report on the Catholic Church in Poland, the first such yearbook with data obtained after pandemic-era restrictions had been lifted. While the report does […]

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Give Me Liberty tells the inspiring story of Cuban human rights activist

December 18, 2023 Filip Mazurczak 1

David E. Hoffman’s Give Me Liberty: The True Story of Oswaldo Payá is a riveting, much-needed portrait of a fearless Cuban human rights activist who tried to reform Fidel Castro’s dictatorship and whose efforts ultimately […]

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Why Ratzinger and Wojtyła were correct about liberation theology

September 21, 2023 Filip Mazurczak 16

The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on the final day of 2022 presents a continued opportunity to revisit and evaluate his legacy as a theologian, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the […]

Features

Polish historian grateful for the witness, beatification of Ulma family

September 8, 2023 Filip Mazurczak 6

On Sunday, September 10th, Wiktoria and Józef Ulma, their six children, and their unborn child (Wiktoria began to give birth during her execution) will be beatified in Markowa in southeastern Poland. On March 24, 1944, […]

Essay

Nicolaus Copernicus: Man of mystery, science, and God

August 26, 2023 Filip Mazurczak 8

This year marks the 550th anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus’ birth and the 480th of his death. This provides an opportunity to debunk some of the myths regarding the relationship of the great scientist, thanks to […]

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