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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 31, 20213 min read
Vatican diplomacy making a difference
This past June 25, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States — usually dubbed the “Vatican’s foreign...
George Weigel
Aug 24, 20213 min read
Wanted: A Catholic Chaim Potok
In the three decades since the Revolution of 1989, Poland’s many cultural achievements include mastering the craft of creating the...
George Weigel
Aug 10, 20213 min read
Pope Leo XIII and contemporary Catholic contentions
Given everything else going on these days, it may seem strange that a 129-year-old encyclical by Pope Leo XIII, founding father of modern...
George Weigel
Aug 3, 20213 min read
Moral courage and the many cultures of death
CRACOW. Thanks to the pandemic, it’s been two years since I was last in Cracow, where for three decades I’ve done extensive research and...
George Weigel
Jul 27, 20213 min read
The bishops, Donatism, and President Biden
In an article first posted at Commonweal and republished on July 7 in La Croix International , Professor John Thiel of Fairfield...
George Weigel
Jul 20, 20213 min read
Liberal authoritarianism and the traditional Latin Mass
Let me begin by defining my location in the Liturgy Wars. I am a Novus Ordo man. I don’t agree that the Roman Missal promulgated by...
George Weigel
Jul 13, 20213 min read
Pope Francis and the life issues
Pope Francis’s tendency to use colorful expressions and abrasive adjectives in commenting on ideas, habits, and practices of which he...
George Weigel
Jul 6, 20213 min read
The 2021 Summer Reading List
Liberation from lockdowns and quarantines ought not be liberation from serious reading, opportunities for which being one of the few...
George Weigel
Jun 29, 20213 min read
The DeLauro Democrats and the Bishops
At 1 p.m. EDT on June 18, it was announced that three-quarters of the U.S. bishops had voted to develop a statement on the eucharistic...
George Weigel
Jun 22, 20213 min read
Collegiality and eucharistic integrity
The concept of the “collegiality” of bishops has been sharply contested since the Second Vatican Council debated it in 1962, 1963, and...
George Weigel
Jun 16, 20213 min read
Cardinal Pell at 80
Fifteen months ago, it looked as if Cardinal George Pell might spend his 80th birthday in prison. A malicious trolling expedition by the...
George Weigel
Jun 8, 20213 min read
Thirty years of Poland
It was a two-week whirlwind that changed my life forever, that first visit of mine to Poland in June 1991. Looking back on it, I’m...
George Weigel
Jun 1, 20213 min read
The oldest cathedral and the newest challenge
It’s now the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but for native Baltimoreans of a certain...
George Weigel
May 26, 20213 min read
The Healer: Paul McHugh at 90
One of the adornments of American Catholicism turned 90 on May 21: Dr. Paul R. McHugh, longtime head of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and...
George Weigel
May 11, 20213 min read
Vatican II on Catholics in public life
The Second Vatican Council’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (often referenced by its Latin title, Gaudium et...
George Weigel
May 4, 20213 min read
Gaia, false gods, and public policy
I claim no expertise in climate science. I do claim a certain competence in detecting spin in the media; for I’m a card-carrying member...
George Weigel
Apr 27, 20213 min read
What would Cardinal Meyer say?
Unfortunately forgotten in most U.S. Catholic circles today, Cardinal Albert Gregory Meyer, archbishop of Milwaukee from 1953 to 1958 and...
George Weigel
Apr 20, 20213 min read
Hans Küng and the perils of fame
During his 1977 rookie year with the Baltimore Orioles, future Hall of Famer Eddie Murray got a piece of advice from veteran Lee May: If...
George Weigel
Apr 13, 20213 min read
God’s harsh and dreadful love
The Paschal Triduum this year seemed like a return from exile: Holy Thursday’s Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, in church; Good...
George Weigel
Apr 6, 20213 min read
Light from the East
Ten years ago last month, the Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church took a striking decision: it elected its youngest member,...
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