Anne Applebaum is a columnist for the WASHINGTON POST and SLATE. She directs the Transitions Forum at the Legatum Institute in London and is an adjunct fellow of the Center for European Policy Analysis. From 1988-1991 she covered the collapse of communism as the Warsaw correspondent...
Norman Davies is a leading scholar on Polish history who is widely regarded as one of the preeminent historians of Central and Eastern European history. From 1971-1996 Davies taught Polish history at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of University College, London. He...
Fr. Maciej Zięba was a close associate of Pope John Paul II and a leading activist in Poland’s Solidarity movement in the Communist era. He is the founder and Director of the Tertio Millenio Institute, an influential NGO in Poland that promotes the social teachings...
Archbishop Mokrzycki is a native of Poland and has been archbishop of Lviv since 2008. As a monsignor, he was a personal secretary to Pope John Paul II from 1996 until the pope’s death in 2005. He continued as a personal secretary to Pope Benedict...
On April 5, 2013 Pope Francis appointed Grusas Archbishop of Vilnius. Born in Washington in 1961, His parents were separated by World War II and, after 16 years of being caught behind the Iron Curtain, his mother and 17-year-old sister were among just 200 families...
Andrzej Gwiazda participated in the student protests against the Polish government in 1968 as well as the December 1970 demonstrations that were sparked by sudden increases in food prices. He was a member of the Presiding Committee of the Strike at Gdansk’s Lenin Shipyard in...
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...