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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
Dec 10, 20193 min read
Books for Christmas 2019
Resist the twitterization of thought — give books for Christmas! The following titles will delight, instruct, edify (or all of the...
George Weigel
Nov 27, 20193 min read
The reformed liturgy, 50 years later
Fifty years ago, on November 30, 1969, the Catholic Church marked the First Sunday of Advent with the universal implementation of the...
George Weigel
Nov 19, 20193 min read
Why did the Wall fall, 30 years ago?
November 9 marked the 30th anniversary of the peaceful breach of the Berlin Wall — the symbolic high point of the Revolution of 1989,...
George Weigel
Nov 12, 20193 min read
The ‘synodality’ masquerade
During the 2001 Synod of Bishops, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, who’d suffered through a lot of synodal speechifying and...
George Weigel
Nov 5, 20193 min read
Fearlessness and the American bishops in Rome
I once knew a Congregationalist minister — Yale Divinity School graduate, decorated World War II chaplain, veteran campaigner for...
George Weigel
Oct 22, 20193 min read
The ideological hijacking of Pope St. John XXIII
ROME. With his liturgical memorial (October 11) falling on the fourth full day of the Special Synod for Amazonia, which sometimes seems...
George Weigel
Oct 15, 20193 min read
Historical clarity and today’s Catholic contentions
One of the curiosities of the 21st-century Catholic debate is that many Catholic traditionalists (especially integralists) and a high...
George Weigel
Oct 9, 20193 min read
What kind of “believers”?
This past June I was in the Munich area for four days, giving a public lecture on Evangelical Catholicism and doing a lot of media...
George Weigel
Oct 1, 20193 min read
The model New Evangelization bishop
Out on the Kansas plains, he was just turning 21 when the Second Vatican Council promulgated its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (...
George Weigel
Sep 17, 20193 min read
Ironies in the fire
The eminent sociologist Peter Rossi was a world-class punster whose scholarly accomplishments fed a sometimes-whimsical view of the human...
George Weigel
Aug 27, 20193 min read
In praise of today’s seminarians
If you’re feeling a bit down about the future of Catholicism in the United States, ask yourself these questions: Why haven’t American...
George Weigel
Aug 20, 20193 min read
Getting beyond Darwin
Bishop Robert Barron and others working hard to evangelize the “Nones” — young adults without religious conviction — tell us that a major...
George Weigel
Aug 13, 20193 min read
Heroism and priesthood, Dachau and Amazonia
In late June, I visited the concentration camp at Dachau, located in a wooded suburb a few miles from downtown Munich. The camp site...
George Weigel
Aug 6, 20193 min read
Extraordinary coincidence, contemporary lesson
Forty years after Pope John Paul II bent the course of the 20th century in a more humane direction during his first pilgrimage to his...
George Weigel
Jul 30, 20193 min read
Lessons in virtue from Apollo 11
Fifty years ago this week, the crew of Apollo 11, the world’s latest heroes, were doing decidedly unheroic things: napping, drinking...
George Weigel
Jul 23, 20193 min read
On the new ‘nationalism’
Thanks to President Trump’s “America First” rhetoric and the rise of populist-nationalist parties in Europe, there’s a lot of debate...
George Weigel
Jul 16, 20193 min read
The quiet hours of Leonid Brezhnev
On first meeting Dr. Andrzej Grajewski, you probably wouldn’t guess that this mild-mannered Polish historian is one of the world’s...
George Weigel
Jul 9, 20193 min read
Herman Wouk, storyteller
Ten years ago, a friend and colleague suggested that I write “The Great Vatican Novel.” I quickly declined, not just because the truth...
George Weigel
Jul 2, 20193 min read
Icons on ammo boxes
Throughout the 20th century — the greatest period of martyrdom in history — persecuted Christians used the dross of this world to make...
George Weigel
Jun 25, 20193 min read
The Summer Reading List
Continuing a venerable tradition, I offer the following for your canicular reading pleasure: John Hay spent decades at the center of...
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