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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
Aug 2, 20223 min read
Elizabeth Warren, woke totalitarian
The subject-line on the email was, shall we say, striking: “Crone swoops with talons toward younger women with babies.” The predatory...
George Weigel
Jul 19, 20223 min read
The irrepressible, irreplaceable Midge Decter
About two-thirds of the way through that fine 1992 film, A League of Their Own , star catcher Dottie Hinson has had enough of the grind...
George Weigel
Jul 12, 20223 min read
The War of the Conciliar Succession, continued
While I’ve never been able to remember the details of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the War of the Austrian...
George Weigel
Jul 5, 20223 min read
The lessons of Russian warmaking
CRACOW. Four and a half months after Russia invaded Ukraine on the Orwellian pretext of displacing a “Nazi” regime — a regime that enjoys...
George Weigel
Jun 29, 20223 min read
Dobbs and the vindication of American democracy
Prior to June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court’s most important civil rights decision was handed down on May 17, 1954. Then, in Brown v....
George Weigel
Jun 21, 20223 min read
Recycling the same old same old
In December 2021 and May 2022, I had the pleasure of teaching a mini-course in Rome, exploring the life and thought of St. John Paul II....
George Weigel
Jun 14, 20223 min read
Demythologizing conclaves
Pope Francis’s recent announcement that he will create 21 new cardinals on August 27, 16 of whom would vote in a conclave held after that...
George Weigel
Jun 7, 20223 min read
The Summer Reading List: A Ukrainian Primer
Given the rubbish about Ukraine spewed out by Russian propaganda trolls and regurgitated by foolish or ideologically besotted Americans,...
George Weigel
May 31, 20223 min read
Fly-casting before D-Day
With a gracious assist from former Kansas governor Sam Brownback, I had the privilege of a personal tour of the Dwight D. Eisenhower...
George Weigel
May 24, 20223 min read
The cardinal and Jimmy
Tertullian, the first major Christian theologian to write in Latin, is thought to have coined the maxim Semen est sanguis Christianorum ,...
George Weigel
May 5, 20223 min read
The Russian Path Not Taken
I’ve been thinking recently about Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken,” and its relationship to a deceased Russian Orthodox priest....
George Weigel
Apr 27, 20223 min read
The Pope and the Patriarch of Moscow
Pope Francis is undoubtedly grieved by the carnage in Ukraine. And when the Catholic Church’s chief ecumenical officer, Cardinal Kurt...
George Weigel
Apr 20, 20223 min read
The recovery of fraternal correction among bishops
In the golden age of the Catholic episcopate — the days of great Church Fathers like Cyprian of Carthage and Augustine of Hippo in the...
George Weigel
Apr 13, 20223 min read
Holy Week 2022: A wartime meditation
In both the Roman and Byzantine liturgical calendars, Lent 2022 has coincided with a brutal war in Ukraine. That war was launched by...
George Weigel
Apr 5, 20223 min read
Salem and the smoke of Satan
On May 13, 1982, Pope John Paul II flew to Portugal on a pilgrimage of thanksgiving for his life having been spared the year before. At...
George Weigel
Mar 30, 20223 min read
No “just wars”?
Every war is a defeat for humanity, because men and women endowed with reason should be able to resolve their differences without mass...
George Weigel
Mar 8, 20223 min read
Needed: An Ecumenical Reset
In the early 1990s, I met Kirill, now Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’, when the man christened Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev was chief...
George Weigel
Mar 1, 20223 min read
Lent, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and the liberating lightness of truth
If you’ve not been in the Vatican basilica on February 22, the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, by all means put that on your bucket...
George Weigel
Feb 22, 20223 min read
On Ukraine
For months now, the world press has described Russian troop deployments along Ukraine’s borders as spearheads of a possible invasion. The...
George Weigel
Feb 15, 20223 min read
Liquid Catholicism and the German Synodal Path
Twenty years ago, during the Long Lent of 2002, I began using the term “Catholic Lite” to describe a project that detached the Church...
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