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Pius XII immediately decided to set off to visit the site of the destruction at San Lorenzo, arriving at 2:00 p.m., while the American bombing raid on Rome was still underway.
An exhibit in Rome recalls the role of Pope Pius XII after the Allied bombing of the city during World War II
6 . 9 . 21 It was a two-week whirlwind that changed my life forever, that first visit of mine to Poland in June 1991. Looking back on it, I’m reminded of something H. L. Mencken wrote of a similarly transformative experience: “It was brain-fogging and back-breaking, but it was grand beyond compare—an adventure of the first chop, a razzle-dazzle superb and elegant, a circus in forty rings.” My first weeks in Poland were all of that and more. For what I learned in dozens of conversations during that fortnight became the crux of The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collap...
Main Market Square in Krakow, Poland. (Jacek Dylag | Unsplash.com) It was a two-week whirlwind that changed my life forever, that first visit of mine to Poland in June 1991. Looking back on it, I’m reminded of something H.L. Mencken wrote of a similarly transformative experience: “It was brain-fagging and back-breaking, but it was grand beyond compare – an adventure of the first chop, a razzle-dazzle superb and elegant, a circus in forty rings.” My first weeks in Poland were all of that, and more. For what I learned in dozens of conversations during that fortnight became the crux of
Thirty years of Poland June 9, 2021 It was a two-week whirlwind that changed my life forever, that first visit of mine to Poland in June 1991. Looking back on it, Iâm reminded of something H.L. Mencken wrote of a similarly transformative experience: âIt was brain-fagging and back-breaking, but it was grand beyond compare â an adventure of the first chop, a razzle-dazzle superb and elegant, a circus in forty rings.â My first weeks in Poland were all of that, and more. For what I learned in dozens of conversations during that fortnight became the crux of The...