Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
George Weigel: Russia is sick
An armoured personnel carrier (APC) with a Russian flag drives outside the regional administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk on April 21, 2014.
Thirty-three years ago, on September 6, 1981, Father Józef Tischner preached one of the great sermons of the 20th century at a Mass opening the second day of the inaugural Solidarity Congress in Gdańsk. Tischner, an old friend of John Paul II and the pope's fellow philosopher, combined the rugged good humor and patriotism of a Polish highlander with a first-class intellect.