08/07/2024

Media appearances

Areté Academy: Training Christians for an Age of Struggle

Article by Rod Dreher, published in The European Conservative

'In 1943, a Croatian fugitive from the Nazis, the Jesuit priest Tomas Poglajen, turned up in Bratislava, adopted a nom de guerre, and began teaching in the city’s Catholic university. An expert in Soviet thought, Father Kolakovic, as he was then called, warned his students that after the Germans lost the war, they would be ruled by the Soviets—and that meant persecution of the church.'