Svetlana Stalina was Stalin’s daughter. She grew up in an atmosphere where God was never mentioned. Her father ruled over a Communist Party and government that did its best to minimize religion’s role in people’s lives—or use it to advance communist ideology. In the long run, however, that temporal power was not stronger than the Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Stalin’
Polish refugees remember harrowing journey
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
They grew up in the Siberian gulag, travelled thousands of miles in harrowing drudgery across Russia to Persia, then sailed half way around the world to be greeted by thousands of smiling Kiwis. Today their odyssey was remembered on Wellington’s waterfront as surviving Polish refugee children gathered for a wreath-laying with Polish foreign affairs minister Read more
Notre Dame faculty call for Bishop’s resignation
Friday, April 27th, 2012
Following an IRS complaint by a secularist group and a wealth of other criticism, 95 members of the University of Notre Dame faculty have called on Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria to resign from the University’s board. The call comes in response to Jenky’s homily in which he denounced President Obama’s “radical, pro-abortion and extreme Read more
Diocese clarifies Bishop’s comments comparing Obama to Hitler and Stalin
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria has clarified comments by Bishop Daniel Jenky by saying the bishop was giving current events a historical context and had been taken out of context. Bishop Jenky has come under fire for comparing President Barack Obama to being on “a similar path” as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. In Read more