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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, 20173 min read
Books for Christmas
It’s been a good year for publishing – at least in the sense of a lot of good books getting published – so here are some for the readers...
George Weigel
Nov 28, 20173 min read
What’s changed since <em>Humanae Vitae</em>?
Throughout this academic year, Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University is hosting a series of lectures, billed as the “first...
George Weigel
Oct 31, 20173 min read
Murderers’ Row, Soviet-style
One hundred years ago, on November 7, 1917, Lenin and his Bolshevik Party expropriated the chaotic Russian people’s revolution that had...
George Weigel
Oct 25, 20173 min read
Which Reformation? What Reform?
Despite the formulation you’ll hear before and after the October 31 quincentenary of Luther’s 95 theses , there was no single...
George Weigel
Oct 18, 20173 min read
Whose bourgeois morality?
In the latest round of debate over Amoris Laetitia , Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation on marriage and the family, a fervent defender...
George Weigel
Oct 10, 20173 min read
The <em>Catechism of the Catholic Church</em> at 25
John Paul II called the Extraordinary Synod of 1985 to assess what had gone right and what had gone wrong in two decades of implementing...
George Weigel
Oct 4, 20173 min read
Fencing with bigots
…being an imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a Federal appeals court and members of the Committee on the Judiciary of what once...
George Weigel
Sep 27, 20173 min read
The transmigration of theological nonsense
During the Long Lent of 2002, Sister Betsy Conway, who lived in the Bostonian epicenter of the clerical sexual abuse crisis, spoke for...
George Weigel
Sep 12, 20173 min read
Speaker Ryan invites a social doctrine conversation
CNN is not the customary locale-of-choice for a catechesis on Catholic social doctrine. But that’s what Paul Ryan, Speaker of the U.S....
George Weigel
Sep 6, 20173 min read
Superheroes? Stardust? Or vessels of the Incarnation?
When I was first introduced to the fascinations of the DNA double-helix in a biology class at Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High School,...
George Weigel
Aug 30, 20173 min read
Domesticating the divinity
Some biblical scholars consider the Book of Deuteronomy to be a collection of sermons: catechetical homilies on the great theme of the...
George Weigel
Aug 23, 20173 min read
It’s a culture war, stupid
Those who persist in denying that the Church is engaged in a culture war, the combatants in which are aptly called the “culture of life”...
George Weigel
Aug 15, 20173 min read
Motown and the turbocharged Church
Detroit hasn’t gotten a lot of good press in recent decades as it’s struggled to cope with the myriad problems of rustbelt American...
George Weigel
Aug 8, 20173 min read
Ecumenism, influence-envy, etc.
Defending the indefensible is never pretty. Or so we’re reminded by recent attempts from the portside of the Catholic commentariat to...
George Weigel
Aug 4, 20173 min read
Questions of competence
It’s a safe bet that 99.95% of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics have never heard of La Civiltà Cattolica [Catholic Civilization], a...
George Weigel
Jul 18, 20173 min read
The cooler Cold War
The claim that “the Cold War is over” and that the West needs a “new paradigm” for relations with Russia has become an antiphon in some...
George Weigel
Jul 5, 20173 min read
Fifty years of friendship with Cardinal Pell
Msgr. Thomas A. Whelan, my pastor when I was growing up in Baltimore, was a striking character: Princeton friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald;...
George Weigel
Jun 27, 20173 min read
The summer reading list
I recently met the good people of St. Benedict Elementary School in South Natick, Massachusetts, which offers classical Catholic...
George Weigel
Jun 20, 20173 min read
It’s Howdy Doody Time!
Three or four times each month, Father X (as I’ll call him here) celebrates the noontime daily Mass I regularly attend. I’m grateful for...
George Weigel
Jun 7, 20173 min read
Thoughts on the Western Wall, Fifty Years Later
Photographs can capture exceptional moments in an iconic way, making the original experience “present” emotionally as well as...
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