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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

Mar 30, 20213 min read

The Easter explosion

Let me adapt to recent circumstances a thought-experiment theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar proposed decades ago: Imagine that a friend...

George Weigel

Mar 24, 20213 min read

Good news after a very bad year

There is no need to belabor the awfulness of the year of lockdowns, shutdowns, and other downers that began in mid-March 2020. Among the...

Woke “rights,” the Equality Act, and Speaker Pelosi

George Weigel

Mar 16, 20213 min read

Woke “rights,” the Equality Act, and Speaker Pelosi

On February 25, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives could have addressed any number of pressing issues. The nation was in its 11th...

The world episcopate and the German apostasy

George Weigel

Mar 9, 20213 min read

The world episcopate and the German apostasy

As the names Ambrose, Augustine, Athanasius, and John Chrysostom suggest, the middle centuries of the first millennium, the era of the...

George Weigel

Mar 2, 20213 min read

Cardinal Pell and squirming Catholics

According to the movie Love Story , “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” Typical Hollywood fluff, you might say. Yet the best...

George Weigel

Feb 23, 20213 min read

Remembering Lives of Consequence

All lives are consequential, for every human being is an idea of God’s, and everyone is a someone for whom the Son of God, the second...

Exodus, Lent, and becoming a true nation

George Weigel

Feb 16, 20213 min read

Exodus, Lent, and becoming a true nation

Ten years ago, I began a most extraordinary Lent by walking up the Aventine Hill to the Basilica of Santa Sabina on the first day of the...

From Christendom times to apostolic times

George Weigel

Feb 9, 20213 min read

From Christendom times to apostolic times

Thirty years ago, on January 22, 1991, Pope John Paul II’s eighth encyclical, Redemptoris Missio (The Mission of the Redeemer), was...

George Weigel

Feb 2, 20212 min read

The challenge of Eucharistic coherence

In his encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia , Pope St. John Paul II invited Catholics to “rekindle” our sense of “Eucharistic amazement,”...

George Weigel

Jan 26, 20213 min read

The Holy See and thug regimes

The list of grave issues that must be addressed during a future papal interregnum, and by the cardinal-electors in a conclave, continues...

President Biden and a Catholic inflection point

George Weigel

Jan 19, 20213 min read

President Biden and a Catholic inflection point

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free,...

George Weigel

Jan 12, 20213 min read

Fr. Maciej Zięba, O.P. (1954-2020)

A wretched year came to a sorrowful end when Father Maciej Zięba, OP, died in his native Wrocław, Poland, on December 31. The birthplace...

George Weigel

Jan 5, 20213 min read

Catholic coherence, Catholic integrity

In 2007, the bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean completed their fifth general conference with a final report, known from the...

George Weigel

Dec 29, 20203 min read

Thoughts on a pro-life picket line

One of Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s “Clinics for Abortion & Reproductive Excellence” – named to yield the Orwellian acronym CARE – is located...

George Weigel

Dec 22, 20203 min read

What the Magi teach us

Among the tenured professorial skeptics, few Gospel episodes have been sliced, diced, and tossed to the dissecting room floor as...

George Weigel

Dec 15, 20203 min read

On cages and evangelization in China

Joshua Wong is a young Chinese human rights activist, recently sentenced to 13 and a half months in prison on the Orwellian charge of...

George Weigel

Dec 1, 20203 min read

Books for Christmas – 2020

How bad a year has it been? Let me not count the ways. Good books can hearten us in 2021 and beyond, though. Herewith, then, some...

George Weigel

Nov 25, 20203 min read

Thanksgiving and the paradox of death

The juxtaposition of Thanksgiving with the Church’s annual month of prayer for the dead hadn’t previously struck me with force; that it...

George Weigel

Nov 17, 20203 min read

Hard lessons of the McCarrick Affair

From the day it was announced that the Vatican would conduct an investigation into the career of former Washington cardinal-archbishop...

George Weigel

Nov 3, 20203 min read

Three models of priestly goodness

The Pandemic of 2020 has been hard on every Catholic. Eucharistic fasting for this length of time may remind us what 20th century heroes...

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