RealClearPolitics - Articles by Nicholas Hahn

Bin Laden's Theology Is Still Alive

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Yesterday was May Day, a holiday long calendared by Soviet regimes as a day to celebrate victories of socialistic communism. Some have suggested it ought to be renamed as the Victims of Communism Day. Perhaps the beatification of the late Pope John Paul II effectively changed the holiday to celebrate the victory over communism.

Indeed, the Blessed John Paul II helped assign communism to the ash heap of history. But that was the 20th century.

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The former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, Jim Nicholson, was with the late Blessed John Paul II shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Nicholson vividly recalled what the late pontiff...

St. Helen, Solidarity, and John Paul II

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500

On May 1, John Paul II will become Blessed John Paul II, but in his home diocese of Krakow, the late Pontiff has long been declared something else.

Nowa Huta is a small suburb outside Krakow, Poland. It was formerly a planned Soviet community, one with large, typically Soviet buildings making up long city blocks. It was a failed communist attempt to catch up to the industrial giant of the United States It was also a failed communist attempt to rid Poland of religion. When the Soviets built this town, it was to be a town "without God" -- the first known town in Poland to be built without a Church. With the ...