Having just waded through all 644 pages of the Diary of Saint Maria Faustyna Kowalska (1905-1938), Polish nun of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy and founder of the internationally popular Divine Mercy devotion, I’ve resolved to try to make sense of it in the context of the modern history of popular Catholic culture
To mark All Saints’ Day, and inspired by the My Daguerreotype Boyfriend tumblr, here are some of the best-looking saints (or potential saints) of the modern Catholic Church
Nowa Huta is the largest district of Poland’s former capital, Kraków, but has little in common with the picture postcard medieval city centre
Religion still has a major part to play in popular protest, as it did in Poland 30 years ago
Sophia Deboick 