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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.
Denver Catholic Staff
May 31, 20163 min read
Kung-pao diplomacy?
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, recently told an Italian journal that relations between the Vatican and the...
Denver Catholic Staff
May 26, 20163 min read
Intolerance and evangelization
Cardinal Robert Sarah is one of the adornments of the Catholic Church, although it’s very unlikely that this man of faith, humor,...
Denver Catholic Staff
May 19, 20163 min read
Biblical preaching and healing the culture
If Catholics in the United States are going to be healers of our wounded culture, we’re going to have to learn to see the world through...
Denver Catholic Staff
May 3, 20163 min read
Good Catholics, good citizens
The Catholic love affair with the United States of America is heading into rough and uncharted waters – and not only in this 2016...
Denver Catholic Staff
May 3, 20163 min read
The most important day of your life
During talks around the country in recent years, I’ve been asking Catholic audiences how many of those present know the date of their...
Denver Catholic Staff
Apr 5, 20163 min read
Weigel: After the “G-word” has been spoken
In the early Church, witnesses to the faith who had been persecuted and tortured but not killed were known as “martyr-confessors.” It’s...
Denver Catholic Staff
Mar 30, 20163 min read
Weigel: Things that can’t change
When the Second Vatican Council was putting the finishing touches on one of its key documents, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church...
Denver Catholic Staff
Mar 21, 20163 min read
Easter is not a question mark
Excavating my desk recently, I found the program notes from a Tallis Scholars concert my wife and I had attended a few months ago. The...
Denver Catholic Staff
Mar 8, 20163 min read
Resisting the demagogue
You’ve got to have a good memory for mid-Sixties pop music to remember the Seekers, an Aussie quartet that once vied for the top of the...
Denver Catholic Staff
Mar 1, 20163 min read
Ukraine’s Greek Catholic heroes
Ever since then Maidan revolution of dignity erupted in Kyiv in November 2013, Russian propaganda has been pumped into the world in a...
Denver Catholic Staff
Feb 16, 20163 min read
ISIS, genocide, and us
The Monuments Men was a disappointing movie, but one of its most chilling scenes sticks in my mind as an analogue to the appalling...
Denver Catholic Staff
Jan 26, 20163 min read
China’s Population Crisis: An Evangelical Opportunity?
State-sponsored cruelty has been a staple of the human condition for millennia. But has there ever been a more wicked policy, with more...
Denver Catholic Staff
Jan 11, 20163 min read
Dear Father: Please stop it.
In all the sixteen documents of the Second Vatican Council, is there any prescription more regularly violated than General Norm 22.3 of...
Denver Catholic Staff
Jan 8, 20163 min read
Looking toward November 8
To redeploy a phrase from President Ford, our “long national nightmare” – in this case, the semi-permanent presidential campaign – will...
Denver Catholic Staff
Dec 28, 20153 min read
Liberal racism bares its fangs
Given the politically-correct hysteria that typically surrounds any discussion of racism these days, I hesitate to use the term. But it’s...
Denver Catholic Staff
Dec 21, 20153 min read
Christmas and a world upside-down
Biblical scholars generally agree that Luke’s Gospel was written at least a generation later than Paul’s first letter to the Christians...
Denver Catholic Staff
Dec 14, 20153 min read
Remembering two great bishops
We American Catholics are, in the main, notoriously uninterested in our own history. So it likely escaped the notice of many that...
Denver Catholic Staff
Dec 7, 20153 min read
Books for Christmas
It’s been a good reading year and I highly recommend the following to the readers on your Christmas (not “holiday”) shopping list: God or...
Denver Catholic Staff
Dec 2, 20152 min read
Synod-2015, Revisited
As I write, just before Thanksgiving, it’s been over a month since Synod-2015 finished its work. Yet there is still no official...
Denver Catholic Staff
Nov 17, 20153 min read
The grittiness in Catholic faith
JERUSALEM. Walking through the narrow, winding streets of Jerusalem’s Old City on my first visit here in fifteen years, I was powerfully...
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