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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
Nov 2, 20203 min read
Prudential voting in bad times
Sixty years ago, Father John Courtney Murray, SJ, published what I regard as the finest Catholic analysis of American democracy ever...
George Weigel
Oct 20, 20203 min read
Joe Biden, pre-conciliar Catholic?
The image of the pre-conciliar Catholic Church in the United States as catechetically effective and politically potent can be hard to...
George Weigel
Oct 13, 20203 min read
The hard road of national renewal
Earlier this fall, I was happy to be one of the initial signatories of “Liberty and Justice for All,” a call for national renewal drafted...
George Weigel
Oct 6, 20203 min read
The toxic waste of Roe v. Wade
Great Britain’s parliamentary democracy has no constitutional text, but rather a “constitution” composed of centuries of legal traditions...
George Weigel
Sep 29, 20203 min read
Truman’s terrible choice, 75 years ago
Three U.S. Navy officers look out at me from a small, black-and-white snapshot, taken in Sasebo, Japan, on September 26, 1945: three and...
George Weigel
Sep 22, 20203 min read
The providential demise of the Papal States
Evelyn Waugh’s Catholic traditionalism was so deep, broad, and intense that self-identified “traditional Catholics” today might seem, in...
George Weigel
Sep 9, 20203 min read
Religious freedom: bleached, blanched, and rinsed out
Father Richard John Neuhaus put two Big Ideas into play in American public life. The first was that the pro-life movement (of which...
George Weigel
Sep 1, 20203 min read
Christ at the center of the Council
Conversations with Father Robert Imbelli have been a great blessing in recent years. I have rarely met a more even-tempered and gracious...
George Weigel
Aug 25, 20203 min read
Why we are where we are
By early March 1865, more than a million Americans had killed or wounded each other in civil war; the killing, wounding, and maiming...
George Weigel
Aug 18, 20203 min read
Rediscovering Eucharistic amazement
In his 2003 encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia (The Church from the Eucharist), Pope St. John Paul II invited Catholics to regain a...
George Weigel
Aug 12, 20203 min read
Rediscovering the reality of the Eucharist
Thinking out loud about a return to “Sunday normal,” a veteran pastor recently told me that he thought it would take one year for each...
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George Weigel
Aug 4, 20203 min read
AM[D]G
Last November 11, on the centenary of its relocation to a 93-acre campus in suburban Washington, D.C., Georgetown Preparatory School...
George Weigel
Jul 28, 20203 min read
The Next Pope and the Crisis of the West
In February 1968, Cardinal Karol Wojtyła wrote Father Henri de Lubac, SJ, about a project in which the cardinal was engaged: a...
George Weigel
Jul 21, 20203 min read
The Next Pope and Vatican Diplomacy
During a short papal flight from Boston to New York on October 2, 1979, Father Jan Schotte (later a cardinal but then a low-ranking...
George Weigel
Jul 14, 20203 min read
The Next Pope and Vatican II
Polemics about the Second Vatican Council continue to bedevil the global Catholic conversation. Some Catholics, often found in the...
George Weigel
Jul 7, 20203 min read
The Next Pope and the Great Commission
In The Shoes of the Fisherman , crusty old Cardinal Leone, canvassing votes for a surprise candidate just before the election of a new...
George Weigel
Jun 30, 20203 min read
Books for the Summer of Our Discontent
These past few months, I expect many folks have found themselves resorting to the page and the lamp more often; may that literary trend...
George Weigel
Jun 23, 20203 min read
Will Nancy Pelosi take a page from her father’s playbook?
In 1918, Mayor James Preston presented a 264-piece silver service to Cardinal James Gibbons on behalf of Baltimore and its citizens – a...
George Weigel
Jun 17, 20203 min read
The biases of a Royal Commission
A brief dip into Latin helps us understand how preconceptions can lead to biased judgments that falsify history — as they did when an...
George Weigel
Jun 2, 20203 min read
The Vatican’s Choice: Jimmy Lai or Xi Jinping?
In mid-May, Chinese leader Xi Jinping unveiled a plan to bypass Hong Kong’s legislature and impose draconian new “national security” laws...
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