Catholics and the Cold War | Dr Peter Chojnowski

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Dr. Peter E. Chojnowski was born in 1965 in New Britain, Connecticut. Dr. Chojnowski has bachelor degrees in political science and philosophy from Christendom College, Front Royal, Virginia and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Fordham University, Bronx, New York. He specializes in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas and Catholic Social Thought. For over 30 years, he has taught at various institutions of higher learning, such as Fordham University, Fairfield University, Iona College, St. Louis University, St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, and Gonzaga University.

Video Title: Catholics and the Cold War | Dr Peter Chojnowski. Source: The Two Cities Podcast. Date Published: April 21, 2025. Description:

Dr Peter Chojnowski joined the Two Cities Podcast for a wide-ranging discussion on Catholics and the Cold War. Topics discussed include: Operation Gladio; intelligence agencies; the bitter fruits and legacies of the Cold War; the potential infiltration and subversion of Triumph Magazine and Christendom College; the Catholic inferiority complex in the face of pagan ideologies; the subversion of remaining Catholic societies in Spain and Portugal; the false dichotomy of liberal capitalism and socialism; the illusion of the “counter-revolutionary moment” of the 1980s and the ‘deoxygenating’ of Catholic political thought within the Americanist milieu. We conclude by asking, where is the Catholic counter-revolutionary movement today? 

Dr. Chojnowski has written 2 books and over 300 articles and reviews for a variety of publications, including the British Catholic Medical Journal, Catholic Family News, the Latin Mass magazine, the Journal of Metaphysics, and the Fatima Crusader. In November of 2017, Dr. Chojnowski established Sister Lucy Truth incorporated in order to investigate the life and identity of Sister Lucy dos Santos of Fatima.