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Jesuit Father Wladyslaw Gurgacz (1914-1949) is seen in an undated photo delivering the homily to post-World War II underground soldiers of the anti-communist resistance. He was branded a "bandit priest," arrested by Polish communists and was shot at Kraków's Montelupich prison after serving as chaplain to one of the partisan groups resisting the postwar communist takeover. (OSV News photo/courtesy Jesuit Archives in Warsaw and Poznan)

Catholic researchers’ work on communism’s martyrs continues

WARSAW, Poland OSV News – On Warsaw's Narbutta Street, amid a carpet of autumn leaves, a neoclassical building stands between bare birches, fronted by a solitary statue of the Virgin Mary.In late October, while thousands gathered across the Polish capital to commemorate the 1984 kidnapping and brutal murder of Solidarity chaplain Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko, patient…...