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4/30/2019 0 Comments

April 30th, 2019

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In a mass murder, German Socialist Gestapo executed Father Abbot Edward Kosibowicz (shot in the back of the head) in the gardens of Mokotowskie Fields, followed by 44 other Catholics, on August 2, 1944.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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4/30/2019 0 Comments

April 30th, 2019

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"The object of the divine will is His goodness, which is His essence. Hence, since the will of God is His essence, it is not moved by another than itself, but by itself alone"
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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4/29/2019 0 Comments

April 29th, 2019

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In retaliation for the escape of one prisoner, German Socialist Gestapo Karl Fritzsch selected 10 men to die in Auschwitz's starvation bunker.
When Franciszek Gajowniczek (Prisoner 5659) was chosen, he cried out, "My wife! My children!"
Father Maximilian Kolbe (Prisoner 16670), arrested for hiding more than 1,500 Jews, volunteered to take his place and died on August 14, 1941.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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4/29/2019 0 Comments

April 29th, 2019

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"In every intellectual being there is will, just as in every sensible being there is animal appetite. And so there must be will in God, since there is intellect in Him. And as His intellect is His own existence, so is His will."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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4/27/2019 0 Comments

April 27th, 2019

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Because he was a Catholic priest, Franciscan Father Władysław Przybysz was arrested by German Socialist Gestapo and shipped to Auschwitz, where he perished from starvation, exposure and exhaustion, on March 3, 1942.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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4/27/2019 0 Comments

April 27th, 2019

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"A thing is said to live in so far as it operates of itself and not as moved by another, the more perfectly this power is found in anything, the more perfect is the life of that thing."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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4/26/2019 0 Comments

April 26th, 2019

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Because he was a Catholic priest, Father Wincenty Rozmus was arrested by the German Socialist Gestapo and shipped to Auschwitz death camp, where he perished from exhaustion, exposure and starvation, on February 25, 1943.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!


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4/26/2019 0 Comments

April 26th, 2019

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"Plants move themselves according to their inherent nature, with regard only to executing the movements of growth and decay."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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4/25/2019 0 Comments

April 25th, 2019

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Arrested by German Socialist Gestapo, Father Władysław Aleksander Mączyński was shipped to Auschwitz death camp, where he perished, on March 23, 1942.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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4/25/2019 0 Comments

April 25th, 2019

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"A thing is said to live in so far as it operates of itself and not as moved by another."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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4/24/2019 0 Comments

April 24th, 2019

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German Socialist Gestapo arrested Catholic Polish actor Witold Zacharewicz, and 10 others including his own mother, for producing false documents for Jews in Warsaw. Shipped to Auschwitz death camp, he was executed on February 16, 1943.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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4/24/2019 0 Comments

April 24th, 2019

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"In living things, to live is to be"
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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4/23/2019 0 Comments

April 23rd, 2019

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"Every evil is founded in some good, and every falsity in some truth."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)

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4/23/2019 1 Comment

April 23rd, 2019

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Quote from Albert Einstein praising the Catholic Church as the only institution that stood up to Hitler. From Time Magazine, December 23, 1940, page 38.
And from an episode of Antiques Roadshow, a letter from Einstein confirming the quote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk_-0UiiauU

EPISODE ON PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/12/las-vegas-nv/appraisals/1943-albert-einstein-letter--200706A19/

TRANSCRIPT OF ANTIQUES ROADSHOW:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/12/las-vegas-nv/appraisals/1943-albert-einstein-letter--200706A19/

GUEST:
I have a letter that Albert Einstein wrote to my father in 1943. In 1940, my father read a “Time Magazine” article that stated that Einstein was quoted as saying that the only social institution that stood up to Nazism was the Christian Church. My father is a Presbyterian minister in a little northern Michigan town called Harbor Springs.
APPRAISER:
Uh-huh.
GUEST:
And he quoted Einstein in a sermon, and a member of the congregation wrote my father a letter saying, "Where did you get your information?" So my father wrote “Time Magazine” and “Time Magazine” wrote him back, and I have that letter, too, but they didn't give the source, so my father wrote Einstein and he wrote back, saying, yes, he did say that the Christian Church was standing up to Hitler and Nazism.
APPRAISER:
I love this story for a lot of reasons. One, it's about your dad checking his references,
GUEST:
Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER:
checking his facts, and how important it is to get your references right. He goes to the first reference—“Time Magazine.”
GUEST:
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
APPRAISER:
He doesn't get a good answer and he goes beyond that.
GUEST:
Mm-hmm... exactly.
APPRAISER:
The second reason I really like this story is that your dad kept all the supporting material...
GUEST:
Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER:
...behind the letter that he eventually got from Einstein confirming, "Yes, I did say this about the Christian Church. It is the only social institution that could stand up to the Nazi regime." So the first letter I have in this stack is the letter from the parishioner, who says, "Where'd that quote come from?"
GUEST:
Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER:
And then the second letter is the letter from “Time Magazine.” They're kind of hedging their bets.
GUEST:
Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER:
I love that they can't really confirm it...
GUEST:
Right.
APPRAISER:
...but they won't deny it. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, he said it, he said it." And then the third thing. Even though he kept all of this original primary support material, your dad took the time to write a three- or four-paragraph essay in which he explains the story behind the Albert Einstein letter.
GUEST:
Right, mm-hmm.
APPRAISER:
This is terrific; I mean, if I could get one message across to people who own historical manuscripts, who own letters from famous people, who own archives, and the people who know the story behind them, it would be: please just take five minutes and write it down for the next generation. Because even though everybody knows it today...

GUEST:
Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER:
...there is a really good chance that the oral tradition will not survive with the paper.
GUEST:
Exactly.
APPRAISER:
If you had brought this letter in without the supporting documents, I would have looked at it, and it says, "It's true that I made a statement which corresponds approximately with the text you quoted. I made this statement during the first years of the Nazi regime-- much earlier than 1940-- and my expressions were a little more moderate." And I would say, "Well, that's a nice typed letter from Einstein, says something about Nazis," but I wouldn't really know what he was talking about...
GUEST:
Right.
APPRAISER:
...if your father had not saved all the material that is appropriate to it. Have you ever had this Einstein letter appraised?
GUEST:
Never.
APPRAISER:
Well, it's on just typing paper. He used to blind stamp his return address, and it's typed and then signed here. Normally, a run-of-the-mill typed Einstein letter from this period is about $1,500 at auction.
GUEST:
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
APPRAISER:
But with this fantastic story behind it, a $1,500 letter becomes... a $5,000 letter.
GUEST:
Wow.





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4/22/2019 0 Comments

April 22nd, 2019

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German Socialist Gestapo arrested Witold Teofil Staniszkis, a Polish Catholic intellectual. Shipped to Auschwitz death camp, he was executed November 21, 1941.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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4/22/2019 0 Comments

April 22nd, 2019

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"What is in things is the truth of the thing; but what is apprehended, is the truth of the intellect, wherein truth primarily resides."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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4/21/2019 0 Comments

April 21st, 2019

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An Easter miracle. With the help of Jan Redzej, prisoner 5430, Catholic Polish war hero Witold Pilecki, prisoner 4859, was able to escape from Auschwitz death camp, along with Edward Ciesielski, prisoner 12969, at 2 in the morning, on April 27, 1943, Easter Tuesday.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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4/21/2019 0 Comments

April 21st, 2019

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"Truth is that which is."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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4/20/2019 0 Comments

April 20th, 2019

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German Socialist Gestapo arrested Father Tadeusz Wilucki, caught in an operation to round up and eliminate Polish Catholic priests. Tortured while held in Montelupich prison, he was shipped to Auschwitz death camp, where he perished from typhoid, on November 27, 1941.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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4/20/2019 0 Comments

April 20th, 2019

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"Everyone who is deceived, understands not that in which he is deceived."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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4/19/2019 0 Comments

April 19th, 2019

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Brother Stanisław Małaczek was swept up in a political raid by the German Socialist Gestapo on the religious in the Higher Theological Seminary, in Ołtarzew.
Shipped to Auschwitz and then Dachau death camp, Brother Stanisław perished on February 28, 1945, only weeks before the defeat of Hitler and the end of World War II in Europe.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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4/19/2019 0 Comments

April 19th, 2019

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"Sense, about its proper object, is never false. Falsity is attributed to the imagination, as it represents the likeness of something even in its absence."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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4/18/2019 0 Comments

April 18th, 2019

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Arrested by German Socialist Gestapo and shipped to Auschwitz, Stanisław Dubois, a member of the Polish resistance movement, worked with Catholic Polish war hero Witold Pilecki by collecting intelligence inside the death camp until his execution on August 21, 1942.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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4/18/2019 0 Comments

April 18th, 2019

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From the Angelic Doctor...
"Things are called false that are naturally apt to appear such as they are not, or what they are not."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
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4/17/2019 0 Comments

April 17th, 2019

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In their campaign to exterminate the intellectual Polish Catholics, German Socialist Gestapo arrested Father Rudolph Rosner, vicar of Saint Anne in Cracow. Shipped to Auschwitz death camp, he perished on March 15, 1942.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król!

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