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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
Nov 9, 20153 min read
John Paul II’s “beloved Krakow”
Several years ago, Father Raymond de Souza, one of my fellow faculty members at an annual Kraków-based summer seminar on Catholic social...
Denver Catholic Staff
Nov 9, 20153 min read
The Speaker and the social doctrine
TRIGGER WARNING: This column will speak well of Paul Ryan, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, and compare him favorably to...
Denver Catholic Staff
Nov 3, 20153 min read
The Speaker and the social doctrine
TRIGGER WARNING: This column will speak well of Paul Ryan, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, and compare him favorably to...
Denver Catholic Staff
Oct 26, 20153 min read
The holy spouses of Lisieux
ROME. Amidst all the Sturm und Drang of Synod-2015, something genuinely new in the life of the Church began, and it shouldn’t escape our...
Denver Catholic Staff
Oct 12, 20153 min read
Pius XII, co-conspirator in tyrannicide
ROME. The great Piazza San Pietro is a five minute walk from where I’m living during Synod-2015. About three-quarters of the Square is...
Denver Catholic Staff
Oct 12, 20153 min read
Issues beneath issues at Synod 2015
ROME. Since Pope Francis announced that two Synods would examine the contemporary crisis of marriage and the family and work to devise...
Denver Catholic Staff
Sep 28, 20153 min read
Synod 2015 hopes
The XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Family begins with Mass in St. Peter’s on October 4. No synod in modern...
Denver Catholic Staff
Sep 23, 20153 min read
Lessons from the Rough Rider for today’s political ruffians
Sitting at a writing-desk in the White House on December 11, 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt was an unhappy camper. In previous...
Denver Catholic Staff
Sep 17, 20153 min read
Popes in these United States
The history of popes in these United States is full of surprises. And one of them, to begin at the beginning, includes the little-known...
Denver Catholic Staff
Sep 17, 20153 min read
Remembering “The Few”
Seventy-five years ago, on Sunday, September 15, 1940, Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine were driven from the prime minister’s...
Denver Catholic Staff
Aug 24, 20153 min read
Catacomb time?
At Christmas 1969, Professor Joseph Ratzinger gave a radio talk with the provocative title, “What Will the Future Church Look Like?” (You...
Denver Catholic Staff
Aug 17, 20153 min read
The deeper issue at the Synod
Looking back on the controversy that preceded Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae, I get the impression that there was an even...
Denver Catholic Staff
Aug 10, 20153 min read
The perils of “preferred peers”
On Catholic campuses that aspire to Top Ten or Top Twenty status in publicity sweepstakes like the U.S. News and World Report college...
Denver Catholic Staff
Aug 3, 20153 min read
Taking the “long view” on Russia
Queried about the Holy See’s less-than-vigorous response to Russian aggression in Ukraine, senior Vatican officials are given to saying...
Denver Catholic Staff
Aug 3, 20153 min read
The amazing, and now Venerable, Father Al
At an inch or so over five feet and weighing, I would guess, something on the underside of 100 pounds, Sister Winnie, a soft spoken...
Denver Catholic Staff
Aug 3, 20153 min read
Flannery O’Connor and Catholic realism
From this vale of tears, one can never be sure about the boundaries of acceptable behavior at the Throne of Grace. Is laughter at earthly...
Denver Catholic Staff
Sep 22, 20143 min read
Explosive business in North Dakota
The “Official Portal for the North Dakota State Government” lists that commonwealth’s nicknames as the Peace Garden State, the...
Denver Catholic Staff
Sep 16, 20143 min read
Regensburg vindicated
On the evening of Sept. 12, 2006, my wife and I were dining in Cracow with Polish friends when an agitated Italian Vaticanista (pardon...
Denver Catholic Staff
Sep 8, 20143 min read
Remembering the great Fouad Ajami
In a year replete with devastating news, the June 22 death of Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami hit especially hard. For decades, Fouad, a...
Denver Catholic Staff
Sep 1, 20143 min read
The covenant of marriage
My son Stephen and I spent an unusual, albeit unusually moving, Independence Day: we attended the golden wedding anniversary celebration...
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