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George Weigel
Nov 13, 20243 min read
The continuing scandal of the Vatican’s China policy
In the annals of historical boorishness, it would be hard to find something more egregious than the Holy See’s timing as it renewed its...
George Weigel
Nov 6, 20243 min read
Taking the Risk of Freedom
Thirty-five years ago, the son of a great historian helped make history when he asked the question that triggered the demolition of the...
George Weigel
Oct 29, 20243 min read
Hard times a’ comin’, whoever wins
Shortly after taking office, British foreign secretary David Lammy described the “nature crisis” as a greater threat than terrorism...
George Weigel
Oct 22, 20243 min read
Meditation on a Roman pizza
ROME–Pizza in the Eternal City tends to exemplify a proposition I have long defended: what crossed the Atlantic going west was usually...
George Weigel
Oct 15, 20243 min read
"Crossing the Threshold of Hope" after thirty years
On October 20, 1994, something unprecedented in the modern history of the papacy took place: the reigning pope published a book that was...
George Weigel
Oct 8, 20243 min read
Indifference is irresponsible
I can understand why many Americans seem dispirited about world affairs. Things are indeed a mess. What I cannot understand, however, is...
George Weigel
Oct 2, 20243 min read
German “synodality” and the world Church
In a recent interview with The Pillar, Dr. Frank Ronge, a veteran German Catholic bureaucrat who coordinates the German Synodal Path,...
George Weigel
Sep 25, 20243 min read
Keeping (or Making) Catholic Education Great
According to the Vatican yearbook, the Annuario Pontificio , there are north of 5,000 Catholic bishops in the world today. They share...
George Weigel
Sep 18, 20243 min read
Choking on Rights Talk
In her prescient book, Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, Mary Ann Glendon of the Harvard Law School warned her...
George Weigel
Sep 11, 20243 min read
Canceled in China
“Hallow,” the prayer app that debuted in 2018, is one of the most popular spiritual tools on the planet, having been downloaded some 14...
George Weigel
Sep 4, 20243 min read
Witness to Hope, Twenty-Five Years Later
My hands were shaky a quarter-century ago as I carried the heavy box from the front door of our house into my study. Inside were my...
George Weigel
Aug 28, 20243 min read
“Sinicization” is not inculturation
“Inculturation” has been a Catholic buzzword for over a half-century. It’s not the most elegant neologism, smacking as it does of...
George Weigel
Aug 21, 20243 min read
When was baseball’s Golden Age?
Amidst a presidential campaign in which many of our countrymen deplore the choices we face in November, let’s take a break, follow the...
George Weigel
Aug 14, 20243 min read
Repurposing the Catholic Campaign for Human Development
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), rhetorically oversold as the “U.S. Church’s anti-poverty program” – Do no other such...
George Weigel
Aug 7, 20243 min read
Potholes on the road to Synod 2024
The ecclesiastical propaganda machine created for last October’s Synod on Synodality for a Synodal Church is still grinding away, and...
George Weigel
Jul 31, 20243 min read
Charity, good manners, and driving the Interstates
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says some interesting things about charity, the supreme theological virtue that, as St. Paul wrote...
George Weigel
Jul 24, 20243 min read
“Reminders” about Ukraine
Samuel Johnson, that great coiner of aphorisms, averred that “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.” In...
George Weigel
Jul 17, 20243 min read
Why just war theory always matters
Last month, I had the honor of addressing the Civitas Dei Fellowship, which is sponsored by the Dominicans’ Thomistic Institute in...
George Weigel
Jul 10, 20243 min read
The Summer Reading List
A long time ago (but not in a galaxy far away), Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High School had us reading six or seven books every summer. I...
George Weigel
Jul 2, 20243 min read
Only one name
Rome is chaotic at its calmest, but three weeks working there in May suggested that the chaos has intensified to what may be...
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