German party Alternative Deutschland, or Alternative for Germany, made significant gains in the 2017 elections and entered German as the country's fourth-largest party and as its opposition party with 12.6 percent of the vote. ..…

Gustav Herling, a Polish man, was sent to the gulags for trying to illegally cross over Soviet territory. ... But after the Iron Curtain came down on Eastern Europe after the war, huge numbers of Polish soldiers like Buca were punished and sent to the gulag. . ..…

We are told,  that those elected to Congress and to the presidency are partisan, political animals they represent distinct political organizations, ideologies and viewpoints that wax and wane popularity with the nation's political currents.. ..…

So, wittingly or otherwise, the pope who had placed “synodality” at the center of his papal program seemed to disregard a solid synodal consensus and facilitated a situation of sacramental incongruity in the Church, in which what was regarded as a font of grace in Germany was understood to be a grave sin..…