Catholic belief can tame your ugliest instincts

Catholic belief can tame your ugliest instincts A profile portrait of Zofia Kossak-Szczucka taken around 1933. She was an ardent anti-semite who nevertheless worked tirelessly to help the Jews of Poland during WWII. Photo: OSV News

David Mills An internationally best-selling novelist who might have won the Nobel Prize in literature, a patriotic Pole, a devout Catholic, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was also an ardent anti-semite. And she is a model for us – not despite her bigotry but because of it. “Our feeling toward the Jews has not changed,” she wrote in…

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