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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
Aug 18, 20143 min read
Recognizing American saints
Most attention-paying U.S. Catholics are aware of the beatification causes for Archbishop Fulton Sheen and Catholic Worker co-foundress...
Denver Catholic Staff
Aug 11, 20143 min read
Is history really over?
In 1989, as the Cold War entered the bottom of the ninth inning, political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote a memorable essay entitled...
Denver Catholic Staff
Jul 28, 20143 min read
Ronald Reagan: cold warrior and nuclear abolitionist
In recent years, as scholars have explored Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy with greater access to primary-source documents, something...
Denver Catholic Staff
Jul 21, 20143 min read
Shipwreck and mission
The post-Vatican II Lectionary for Mass has many fine features, one of which is the continuous reading of the Acts of the Apostles during...
Denver Catholic Staff
Jul 14, 20143 min read
An eminent distortion of history
As the world marked the silver anniversary of the Polish elections of June 1989, which eventually brought to power the first...
Denver Catholic Staff
Jul 7, 20143 min read
The uses of monarchy
Hereditary monarchy is not exactly a growth industry in the 21st century. But those who imagine monarchy to be useless in a democratic...
Denver Catholic Staff
Jun 30, 20143 min read
Books for summer reading
Real readers read books all year round. But the convention of the “summer reading list” has become so thoroughly engrained in our culture...
Denver Catholic Staff
Jun 23, 20143 min read
Mission time
The Office of Readings for the solemnity of the Ascension offers a lovely excerpt from one of St. Augustine’s sermons “de Ascensione...
Denver Catholic Staff
Jun 10, 20143 min read
John Paul and Francis at Yad Vashem
As that familiar parody of bad fiction has it, “it was a dark and stormy night” – March 21, 2000, to be precise – when I made my way from...
Denver Catholic Staff
May 27, 20143 min read
For city kids and city neighborhoods
It’s commencement season and tens of thousands of students are graduating from inner-city Catholic elementary schools. As decades of...
Denver Catholic Staff
May 19, 20143 min read
The Anglican Wannabe fallacy
Prior to April 27’s canonization-doubleheader, I taped a lengthy interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, discussing both...
Denver Catholic Staff
May 5, 20143 min read
Humanae Vitae: what if?
Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna has long been a vocal supporter of Humanae Vitae’s teaching on the morally appropriate means of family...
Denver Catholic Staff
Apr 28, 20143 min read
The difference Easter made
One of the striking things about the Easter and post-Easter narratives in the New Testament is that they are largely about...
Denver Catholic Staff
Apr 21, 20143 min read
John XXIII and John Paul II: Canonizing the bookends
Pope Francis’s bold decisions to canonize Blessed John XXIII without the normal post-beatification miracle, and to link Good Pope John’s...
Denver Catholic Staff
Apr 14, 20143 min read
Easter with Flannery O’Connor
This coming Aug. 3 will mark the golden anniversary of Flannery O’Connor’s “Passover,” to adopt the biblical image John Paul II used to...
Denver Catholic Staff
Apr 7, 20143 min read
Easter glory in a Roman jewel box
One of the many reasons to follow the Lenten station church pilgrimage through Rome is that, along that unique itinerary of sanctity, one...
Denver Catholic Staff
Apr 2, 20143 min read
God and Freedom
For the better part of two centuries now, one of the standard tropes in western high culture has held that the-God-of-the-Bible-is-the-en...
Denver Catholic Staff
Mar 24, 20143 min read
Lent: the annual catechumenate
Historians of the Roman liturgy generally reckon the restorations of the Easter Vigil (by Pius XII) and the adult catechumenate (by...
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