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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
May 23, 20183 min read
Justin Trudeau and the dictatorship of relativism
You’ve probably never heard of the Waupoos Family Farm. I hadn’t either, until I met some folks involved in it during a recent visit to...
George Weigel
May 15, 20183 min read
The Holy See, China, and evangelization
In a recent interview, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, suggested that certain critics of a deal between the...
George Weigel
May 9, 20183 min read
Freedom is never free
When I first visited Lviv, the principal city of western Ukraine, in 2002, the transportation from plane to airport terminal was an old...
George Weigel
May 1, 20183 min read
Making a diverse College of Cardinals work
With the exception of the two consistories held by Pope John XXIII in 1958 and 1959, every creation of new cardinals since Pope Pius XII...
George Weigel
Apr 25, 20183 min read
Baseball and Synod 2018
I trust it won’t cause heartburn among the editors of Commonweal if I confess to having cheered at a recent article they posted, “Quit...
George Weigel
Apr 11, 20183 min read
Patriarch Kirill and Mr. Putin
The annals of sycophancy are, alas, replete with examples of churchmen toadying to political power. Here in the United States, we’ve seen...
George Weigel
Mar 27, 20183 min read
Memory, identity, and patriotism
The second volume of my biography of St. John Paul II, The End and the Beginning , benefited immensely from the resources of Poland’s...
George Weigel
Mar 19, 20183 min read
Getting ready for Synod-2018
The headline on the March 3 story at the CRUX website was certainly arresting — “Cardinal on charges of rigged synods: ‘There was no...
George Weigel
Mar 13, 20183 min read
Learning from the White Rose
Seventy-five years ago last month, Sophie and Hans Scholl and their friend Christian Probst were executed by guillotine at Munich’s...
George Weigel
Mar 7, 20183 min read
Parsing the “T”
About five years ago, a friend took her son with her when she went to a beauty shop to get her hair cut. The hairdresser was snipping...
George Weigel
Feb 28, 20183 min read
Rethinking “mission territory”
In his June 1908 apostolic constitution, Sapienti Consilio , Pope Pius X decreed that, as of November 3 that year, the Catholic Church in...
George Weigel
Feb 21, 20183 min read
Conscience and grace: A Lenten meditation
The scriptures of Lent in the Church’s daily liturgy invite two related reflections. The weeks immediately preceding Easter call us to...
George Weigel
Feb 13, 20183 min read
Pork Roll, Lent, and Catholic identity
A few weeks before Ash Wednesday, an Associated Press squib with Lenten implications appeared in the Washington Post sports section: *...
George Weigel
Feb 6, 20183 min read
Men without conviction, churches without people
Europe’s wholesale abandonment of its Christian faith is often explained as the inevitable by-product of modern social, economic, and...
George Weigel
Jan 30, 20183 min read
The Catholic Church doesn’t do ‘paradigm shifts’
Ever since Thomas Kuhn popularized it with his 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , the notion of a “paradigm shift” has...
George Weigel
Jan 23, 20183 min read
Homage to Don Briel
In the history of U.S. Catholic higher education since World War II, three seminal moments stand out: Msgr. John Tracy Ellis’s 1955...
George Weigel
Jan 9, 20183 min read
Recompense for a serious mistake
I won’t venture into classical Roman literature, which is not my forte, but I will say with assurance that the greatest modern Latin pun...
George Weigel
Jan 3, 20183 min read
Viva Cristo Rey!
In the 1920s, when the United States had a quasi-Stalinist regime on its southern border, “Viva Cristo Rey!” was the defiant battle cry...
George Weigel
Dec 27, 20173 min read
In Memoriam, 2017
This was a tough year for losing friends. At one point, I got so tired of writing obituary columns that I wrote a kind of pre-obituary so...
George Weigel
Dec 19, 20173 min read
The crèche and the gap
For the past decade or so, I’ve been assembling a mid-sized Judean village of Fontanini crèche figures, including artisans, herders (with...
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