Paul Kengor

Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. His books include A Pope and a President, The Divine Plan and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism, The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration.

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US Senator Bob Casey Jr., D, Pa., greets senate candidate Lt Governor John Fetterman before a speech by President Joe Biden at the United Steelworkers of America Local Union 2227 on September 5, 2022 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania: A Tale of 2 Caseys and the Death of a Pro-Life Catholic State

COMMENTARY: With the election of Josh Shapiro as governor and John Fetterman as Robert Casey’s partner in the U.S. Senate, the position of Pennsylvania as a pro-life state is a thing of the past.

Paul Kengor Commentaries November 9, 2022

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy leaves St. Stephen Martyr Catholic Church after attending Mass, on Oct. 28, 1962, in Washington, a few hours before Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev offers to retire the Soviet missiles from Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis and its aftermath was the most serious U.S.-Soviet confrontation of the Cold War.

Averting Nuclear Armageddon — in October 1962 and Today

COMMENTARY: Sixty years ago, it took the skill and resolve of key statesmen and religious leaders — in Washington, in Moscow, at the Vatican — to pull the world back from the precipice.

Paul Kengor Commentaries October 17, 2022

A coal miner poses under a statue of Saint Barbara, the patron saint of miners, in a mine gallery March 24, 1990, in Oignies, France.

The Catholic Case for Labor

COMMENTARY: If we want to support workers, we should do what Jesus and his Church would do, not what Karl Marx and socialists would do.

Paul Kengor Commentaries September 4, 2022

Pope John Paul II and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev pose for photographers following their historical audience at the Vatican on December 1, 1989.

When Mikhail Gorbachev Encountered John Paul II — and St. Francis

COMMENTARY: Did the former leader of the Soviet Union feel the tug of the Holy Spirit after the fall of communist empire?

Paul Kengor Commentaries September 1, 2022

Declaration of Independence signed July 4, 1776.

1619, 1776 and the United States of America

COMMENTARY: There’s no arguing it: The United States of America, as our founders conceived it, started in 1776.

Paul Kengor Nation July 1, 2022

Pope St. John Paul II consecrating Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on the Solemnity of the Annunciation, March 25, 1984.

John Paul II’s Consecration of Russia

COMMENTARY: The Polish Pope made an act of entrustment to the Immaculate Heart of Mary 38 years ago.

Paul Kengor Commentaries March 23, 2022

At right, a Russian armored vehicle sits at a railway station in Rostov Oblast, Russia Feb. 25, awaiting deployment to Ukraine. At left, a Soviet tank sits on St. Joseph Boulevard in Budapest, on Nov. 6, 1956, two days after helping to crush the uprising in Hungary.

Putin Goes Soviet: Shades of Hungary 1956

COMMENTARY: Right now, Ukraine is being martyred once again. And yet again, the persecutors march from Moscow.

Paul Kengor World February 28, 2022

Pope St. John Paul II blesses Ukrainian children after offering Mass at Chaika Airfield outside Kyiv, June 25, 2001.

‘Shedding Their Blood’ — The Popes, Ukraine and Russia

COMMENTARY: Once again, the people of Ukraine turn to the faith for their salvation against the enemy at the gate — and once again, a pope is not standing by in silence.

Paul Kengor Commentaries January 26, 2022

Members of the Taliban patrol in the back of a pickup truck with a Taliban flag along a street in Kabul on Sept. 30.

Remember 2021 — and Remember the Lessons of 9/11

COMMENTARY: The somber 20-year anniversary was met this year with another somber development — the American withdrawal from Afghanistan and its return to the Taliban. And it need not have been.

Paul Kengor Nation December 31, 2021

Clockwise L-R: T-55A on the streets during Martial law in Poland. President Ronald Reagan with Pope John Paul II. ZOMO squads with police batons preparing to disperse and beat protesters.

Christmas 1981 Heralded the Collapse of Communism in Poland

COMMENTARY: Forty years ago, Soviet communists tried to turn out the lights. But like a candle in the White House window, Ronald Reagan and John Paul II and the people of Poland kept a flicker of hope alive.

Paul Kengor Commentaries December 13, 2021

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