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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
Feb 8, 20223 min read
Undercutting Vatican II to defend Vatican II?
Archbishop Arthur Roche, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship, recently sent the world’s bishops instructions...
George Weigel
Feb 1, 20223 min read
Two families and the communion of saints
Despite being immersed for over 30 years in the study of modern Polish history, I must confess that I’d never heard of the heroic Ulma...
George Weigel
Jan 25, 20223 min read
Russia, Ukraine, and moral reckoning
There have been vast improvements in the techniques and technology of filmmaking since 1961, when Stanley Kramer made Judgment at...
George Weigel
Jan 18, 20223 min read
Marching toward a different future
The annual March for Life in Washington began in 1974 — and it’s hard to think of a more admirable or consistent public witness to the...
George Weigel
Jan 11, 20223 min read
Who invented the individual?
A common misconception holds that early “modernity” invented the “individual”: the idea that everyone is a someone with a unique identity...
George Weigel
Jan 5, 20223 min read
No optimism, much hope
While history is always full of surprises, including happy ones, I must confess that I’m not full of Pentecostal joy as I consider the...
George Weigel
Dec 28, 20213 min read
Women of valor and the pro-life cause
I first met Erika Bachiochi — then Erika Schubert — in July 1998, when she was my student in the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free...
George Weigel
Dec 21, 20213 min read
The sacred earthiness of Christmas
ROME. A massive, 16-volume Lives of the Saints , first published between 1872 and 1877, informs me that, here in the Eternal City, the...
George Weigel
Dec 14, 20213 min read
The Vatican’s unread newspaper and the U.S. bishops
When I began working with some regularity in Rome 30 years ago, my elders and betters taught me that no one paid much attention to the...
George Weigel
Dec 7, 20213 min read
From Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 to Beijing 2022
In July 2016, as we were sitting on the fantail of the Swiss sidewheeler Rhone while she chugged across Lake Geneva, my host pointed out...
George Weigel
Nov 30, 20213 min read
Books for Christmas 2021
Some suggestions for Christmas giving, in the form of books that amuse, inspire, educate or all-of-the-above: Prison Journal, Volume 3 –...
George Weigel
Nov 23, 20213 min read
On being thankful for America at Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving, no one living in the United States should be anything but profoundly grateful for the privilege of living in this...
George Weigel
Nov 16, 20213 min read
Catholic progressives and the culture war
Among those in the ultramundane pantheon of communist mega-monsters, Lev Davidovich Bronstein (better known by his Bolshevik nom de...
George Weigel
Nov 9, 20213 min read
Bishops, public officials, and holy communion: once again
As the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops prepares to meet in Baltimore, misconceptions about a proposed conference statement...
George Weigel
Nov 2, 20213 min read
On John Paul II’s 75th anniversary
By any worldly measure, 1946 was an annus horribilis in Poland. With the exceptions of Cracow and Lodz, every Polish city lay in ruins....
George Weigel
Oct 19, 20213 min read
Pope Francis, ‘estranged’ Catholics, and holy communion
Certain Catholic media platforms that often function as de facto extensions of Jen Psaki’s White House Press Office have continually...
George Weigel
Oct 12, 20213 min read
On not buying into the mythology of ‘prestige’ universities
Some years ago, a Catholic prep school invited me to address its parents’ association on the future of Catholic education. After...
George Weigel
Sep 28, 20213 min read
The Casaroli Myth
When I met Cardinal Agostino Casaroli on February 14, 1997, the architect of the Vatican’s Ostpolitik and its soft-spoken approach to...
George Weigel
Sep 21, 20213 min read
Catholic “beliefs” and the abortion debate
Do Catholics “believe that human life begins at conception” — a formulation that’s become ubiquitous in recent weeks? Well, yes, in...
George Weigel
Sep 7, 20213 min read
The mighty pen of Father Paul Mankowski, S.J.
In the summer before the Second Vatican Council opened, Pope John XXIII met with Cardinal Léon-Joseph Suenens in the papal residence at...
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