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Film Fiction Music PoetryNovember 16, 2022 marked the passing of David L. Schindler, Dean Emeritus and Edouard Cardinal Gagnon Professor Emeritus of Fundamental Theology at the John Paul II Institute in Washington, D.C. Dr. Schindler played a fundamental role in establishing Humanum: Issues in Family, Culture & Science in 2011 and continued to be a great friend of the publication in the years that followed.
Reading Czesław Miłosz’s poetry can feel a bit surreal these days. Frequent visual echoes of his poems flash by on screens, images of cities turned to rubble, armored vehicles patrolling through wreckage, and refugees fleeing across eastern Europe. Miłosz’s poetry is partly a poetry of witness, work influenced by his first-hand confrontation of Nazi and Communist aggression during and after the Second World War.