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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
Dec 12, 20183 min read
Why 42 had to be impeached twenty years ago
Twenty years ago this month, I found myself seriously double-booked, so to speak. The editing of the first volume of my John Paul II...
George Weigel
Nov 28, 20183 min read
Cleansed and conformed to God’s will
“Father, We Thank Thee, Who Hast Planted” has long been one of my favorite hymns. Its tune, taken from the 16th century Genevan Psalter,...
George Weigel
Nov 20, 20183 min read
Vatican autocracy and the U.S. bishops
As the U.S. bishops gathered in Baltimore on the weekend of Nov. 10-11, it seemed certain that, after a day of prayer, penance, and...
George Weigel
Nov 6, 20183 min read
Roots of Catholic anger
After a month out of the country, working in Rome at Synod-2018 and helping mark the 40th anniversary of John Paul II’s election at...
George Weigel
Oct 31, 20183 min read
Shifting tectonic plates in Eastern Christianity
ROME. While Synod-2018 was trying to grasp the polyhedron-like character of “synodality” and wrestling with the differences among sexual...
George Weigel
Oct 18, 20183 min read
John Paul II, youth minister
Pole that he was, Karol Wojtyla had a well-developed sense of historical irony. So from his present position in the Communion of Saints,...
George Weigel
Oct 10, 20183 min read
The Catholic crisis, in perspective
Perspective is at least as important when reading the signs of the times as it is in landscape painting. And so, in this autumn of our...
George Weigel
Oct 2, 20183 min read
Courage in the Slough of Despond
I never took a class from historian Frank Orlando, but the motto he placed in the faculty section of my college yearbook — “History is an...
George Weigel
Sep 18, 20183 min read
Maintenance vs. mission
Just when the Long Lent of 2002 was coming to a boil in March of that year, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, prefect of the Vatican’s...
George Weigel
Sep 11, 20183 min read
Saving Synod-2018 from itself
Anyone looking for a remedy for insomnia might try working through the Instrumentum Laboris , or “working document,” for the XV Ordinary...
George Weigel
Sep 4, 20183 min read
Full-immersion Catholicism
As this Catholic annus horibilis continues to unfold, perhaps some good news is in order; first, a little background. In late 1991,...
George Weigel
Aug 28, 20183 min read
Why we stay, and the Vigano Testimony
The Sunday Mass scriptures during this summer of horrors have often been eerily appropriate, beginning with Jeremiah’s polemic against...
George Weigel
Aug 22, 20183 min read
Fackenheim’s Law and the Current Catholic Crisis
The medieval Jewish sage Maimonides counted 613 commandments, or mitzvot, in the Law that God gave his people, Israel. The 20th-century...
George Weigel
Aug 14, 20183 min read
The current crisis
The outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war caused the premature suspension of the First Vatican Council on October 20, 1870 and left the...
George Weigel
Aug 8, 20183 min read
WYD 1993: The Turning Point
On this 25th anniversary of World Youth Day in Denver, I can’t help sharing one of my favorite personal memories of John Paul II. It was...
George Weigel
Aug 1, 20183 min read
Fridays without Charles
Take my word for it: You don’t want to be around me at breakfast. I am not a chipper morning person, and it’s best to leave me to the...
George Weigel
Jul 3, 20183 min read
The 2018 Summer Reading List
The vacation season is an opportunity to escape TwitterWorld and do some serious reading. These books will help make your summer...
George Weigel
Jun 20, 20183 min read
Homelands and social doctrines
With hundreds of bishops coming to the Vatican in October 2001 for a Synod, I decided to spend that month in Rome conducting interviews...
George Weigel
Jun 6, 20183 min read
Craving approval isn’t evangelization
The bizarre comment and the weird gesture have not, until recently, been associated with high-ranking churchmen. Both, alas, were on...
George Weigel
May 31, 20183 min read
Grace under pressure
A chapter in a remarkable American and Catholic life will close on June 6, when Abbot Thomas Frerking, OSB, concludes more than two...
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