Posts by Fr. Marek Stroba, OMI

(For professors, students, and teachers interested in the history of Poland and international law.) The citation for this work is: Writings (1416-1432): The Struggle for the Self-Determination of Central Europe, by Paweł Włodkowic. Rome: Angelicum University Press Fundacja Świętego Mikołaja, 2023. The Foreword of Writings is by Prof. Ewa Thompson, which provides a thorough summary…

(For professors, teachers, art historians, and students) In September 1939, at the beginning of the German invasion of Poland, German Kommando Paulsen arrived in Kraków and stole the Veit Stoss altar from St. Mary’s Basilica, transporting it to Berlin and then to Nuremberg. This priceless piece of sacred art remained in Germany until the end…

(For historians, professors, college students, religious academics, and interested adults.) A nun from the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary (RM) Congregation, Mother Matylda Getter was the founder of twenty-five educational and care institutes, honored in the fields of education and charity, decorated with the Order of Polonia Restituta (1925), the Gold Cross of…

(For professors, students, teachers, persons having basic knowledge of psychology and history of philosophy.) The Saint John Paul II Institute at the University of St. Thomas offers a Master of Arts degree in John Paul II Studies that encompasses a series of Anthropological Course Requirements, Social Teaching Course Requirements, Mission Course Requirements, and Synthesis Course…

(For professors, students, teachers, persons having basic knowledge of psychology and history of philosophy.) Karol Wojtyla, a native of Poland, lived most of his life in ominous, collectivistic, and dictatorial societies, first under Nazism and later under Communism. His lived experience under these two systems guided him to a deeper reflection on the relationship of…