A former student and close personal friend of Pope John Paul II, Grygiel has served as vice president of the central session of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family, located at the Pontifical Lateran University, where he holds the...
Joaquín Navarro-Valls was the Director of the Holy See Press Office from 1984-2006. His role as the press liaison between the Vatican and the world press corps gave him perhaps the highest visibility of any one person in the Vatican outside of the Pope himself....
O’Sullivan is the author of the critically acclaimed work The Pope, The President and the Prime Minister that shed extraordinary new light on the intricate role played by Regan, Thatcher and John Paul II in the fall of communism. O‘Sullivan is the former editor of...
Monsignor Slawomir Oder was one of the first Polish priests ordained after the collapse of communism in 1989, making him a true beneficiary of Pope John Paul II's courageous anti-Soviet efforts. Since September 2001 he has been Judicial Vicar of the Appellation Tribunal of the...
Zaryn is a leading Polish historian and authority on the history of the Catholic Church in Poland during the 20th Century. A prolific author, Zaryn is a former democratic activist who was arrested and imprisoned by the communist regime in 1982....
Andrzej Grajewski is Polish political scientist, and member of the College of the Institute of National Remembrance (1999-2006). An active member of Solidarity, Grajewski was involved in underground communications and providing aid to the interned and their families following the imposition of martial law in...
Nowak was employed at the Lenin Steel mill from 1969 to 1985. In 1980, he joined Solidarity After the introduction of martial law, he was initially living in hiding, a month later he was arrested and sentenced by a military court to 3 1/2 year...
Ligia was a close collaborator with Solidarity chaplain Fr. Jerzy Popiełuszko. In November 1981 she was viciously beaten by “unknown attackers.” From December 1981 to February 1982 she lived in hiding. In June 1982 she was arrested and kept in custody for 2 weeks then...
Ewa Czaczkowska is a noted Polish historian, journalist, and founder of Areopag21.pl - a Catholic news service. Her biographies include Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński Saint Faustina, Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko....
Dr. Głębocki is a Professor of History at Poland’s leading Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He specializes in the history of Eastern Europe; and the policies of the former USSR towards its member states. He also writes and lectures extensively on Polish-Russian relations and the history...