74.1 F
Denver
Monday, April 22, 2024

George Weigel

George Weigel is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. His column is distributed by the Denver Catholic.

Radiant in the GULAG and elsewhere

​In Jesus of Nazareth – Holy Week, Pope Benedict XVI remarked on the striking parallel between the presence of the holy women at the...

When ideology and blasphemy meet

In May 1993, the “World Russian People’s Council,” a “meeting place” for those “concerned about the present and future of Russia,” was created at...

Baseball and rumors of angels

One of my life’s great blessings has been to have known and worked with men and women whose books I first studied in college...

Easter, Creation, and holiness

What came first: Creation, or God’s covenants with the People of Israel and the New Israel, the Church? The question may seem odd, even silly....

Following the Jewish Jesus

Twenty-four years ago this week, I was in Jerusalem to cover Pope John Paul II’s epic pilgrimage to the Holy Land for NBC. After...

The good news is that the bad news isn’t all the news there is

In the course of an insightful essay on Vladimir Putin’s challenge to civilization, Italian historian Roberto de Mattei, observed that, amidst the general decline...

Two who didn’t run

His neighbors in 1940s Oklahoma would have found it hard to imagine the boy they knew as Stanley Francis Rother as a future martyr,...

‘Gendered’ nonsense is dangerous nonsense

Dean Acheson, U.S. secretary of state from 1949 until 1953, is buried in Washington’s Oak Hill Cemetery. When I read recently that Acheson’s 20th...

Two years on, still unbroken

Two years ago, Russian forces attempted a Hitlerian blitzkrieg in Ukraine. According to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, its goal was to eradicate Ukraine: both...

Lenten literary companions

The traditional Lenten practices of intensified prayer, fasting, and almsgiving are spiritual disciplines to be followed along the six-week pilgrimage from Ash Wednesday to...

Latest Articles