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George Weigel
Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, George Weigel is a Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals.
George Weigel
Mar 5, 20243 min read
Two who didn’t run
His neighbors in 1940s Oklahoma would have found it hard to imagine the boy they knew as Stanley Francis Rother as a future martyr, and...
George Weigel
Feb 21, 20233 min read
Churchmen of the Year
When they were working together some years ago at the Ukrainian Catholic University — the only Catholic institution of higher learning in...
George Weigel
Dec 27, 20223 min read
We’re ‘fans,’ not ‘fan bases’
Amidst the sundry aggravations of contemporary life in these United States, few have such a cringe-inducing effect on me as a ubiquitous...
George Weigel
Dec 20, 20223 min read
Mary, the Church, Christmas, and Jimmy Lai
Now, on Christmas Day, the nine months have been fulfilled. What began on the day of Annunciation is made visible to the world in the...
George Weigel
Dec 13, 20223 min read
The German Crisis, the World Church, and Pope Francis
The Year of Our Lord 2023 will likely witness Catholic dramas we cannot predict now; that is the way of Providence. What we can know with...
George Weigel
Dec 6, 20223 min read
Books for Christmas – 2022
Last month’s midterm elections made it painfully clear that many pro-life advocates and politicians are at sea in the post-Roe v. Wade...
George Weigel
Nov 29, 20223 min read
Genocide in Ukraine?
Memo to both newly elected members of Congress like J.D. Vance and incumbents like Josh Hawley and Kevin McCarthy: It’s time to stop...
George Weigel
Nov 22, 20223 min read
Giving thanks for Mike Pence at Thanksgiving
I’ll confess to some exasperation when, during the 2016 campaign, Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence described himself as an...
George Weigel
Nov 15, 20223 min read
Diminished bishops, the new ultramontanism, and the Synodal process
Thanks to the Franco-Prussian War, the First Vatican Council was suspended in October 1870 and never reconvened. Before its unanticipated...
George Weigel
Nov 8, 20223 min read
Three pontificates and Vatican II
On the morning of October 17, 1978, the newly-elected Pope John Paul II concelebrated Mass with the College of Cardinals and pledged that...
George Weigel
Nov 2, 20223 min read
President Biden, Archbishop Paglia, and the mortification of the Church
No one who has worked in Washington for more than four decades, as I have, can possibly imagine Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., as one of...
George Weigel
Oct 19, 20223 min read
Why Vatican II Was Necessary
Writing my new book, To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II (Basic Books), afforded me the welcome opportunity to dig...
George Weigel
Oct 11, 20223 min read
John XXIII’s original intention for Vatican II
Sixty years after its solemn opening on October 11, 1962, is there anything new to be said about the Second Vatican Council? I think...
George Weigel
Sep 27, 20223 min read
Thank you, Your Majesty
Americans have many reasons to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II, one of the few truly noble figures on the contemporary world stage....
George Weigel
Sep 20, 20223 min read
Evangelization: What and When?
At the “information meeting” of the College of Cardinals this past Aug. 29-30, there was considerable agreement that evangelization is...
George Weigel
Sep 13, 20223 min read
Finding the bishops we need
There was considerable excitement in some quarters this summer when Pope Francis appointed three women as members of the Vatican’s...
George Weigel
Sep 6, 20223 min read
On the folly of ignoring dictators
Earlier this year, I had the honor and pleasure of being introduced to Hatfield House, ancestral home of the Marquesses of Salisbury, by...
George Weigel
Aug 30, 20223 min read
Christian solidarity vs. barbarism
CRACOW. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees have passed through this ancient cultural capital of Poland since Vladimir Putin’s...
George Weigel
Aug 23, 20223 min read
Wars and choices
One of the more irritating tropes of this age in which sloganeering has replaced argumentation is the alleged distinction between “wars...
George Weigel
Aug 9, 20223 min read
On the ever-accelerating passage of time
In one of his Blackford Oakes novels, William F. Buckley, Jr. had a character crack a Wagnerian joke along these lines: What is Siegfried...
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