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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
Mar 30, 20213 min read
The Easter explosion
Let me adapt to recent circumstances a thought-experiment theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar proposed decades ago: Imagine that a friend...
George Weigel
Mar 24, 20213 min read
Good news after a very bad year
There is no need to belabor the awfulness of the year of lockdowns, shutdowns, and other downers that began in mid-March 2020. Among the...
George Weigel
Mar 16, 20213 min read
Woke “rights,” the Equality Act, and Speaker Pelosi
On February 25, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives could have addressed any number of pressing issues. The nation was in its 11th...
George Weigel
Mar 9, 20213 min read
The world episcopate and the German apostasy
As the names Ambrose, Augustine, Athanasius, and John Chrysostom suggest, the middle centuries of the first millennium, the era of the...
George Weigel
Mar 2, 20213 min read
Cardinal Pell and squirming Catholics
According to the movie Love Story , “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” Typical Hollywood fluff, you might say. Yet the best...
George Weigel
Feb 23, 20213 min read
Remembering Lives of Consequence
All lives are consequential, for every human being is an idea of God’s, and everyone is a someone for whom the Son of God, the second...
George Weigel
Feb 16, 20213 min read
Exodus, Lent, and becoming a true nation
Ten years ago, I began a most extraordinary Lent by walking up the Aventine Hill to the Basilica of Santa Sabina on the first day of the...
George Weigel
Feb 9, 20213 min read
From Christendom times to apostolic times
Thirty years ago, on January 22, 1991, Pope John Paul II’s eighth encyclical, Redemptoris Missio (The Mission of the Redeemer), was...
George Weigel
Feb 2, 20212 min read
The challenge of Eucharistic coherence
In his encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia , Pope St. John Paul II invited Catholics to “rekindle” our sense of “Eucharistic amazement,”...
George Weigel
Jan 26, 20213 min read
The Holy See and thug regimes
The list of grave issues that must be addressed during a future papal interregnum, and by the cardinal-electors in a conclave, continues...
George Weigel
Jan 19, 20213 min read
President Biden and a Catholic inflection point
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free,...
George Weigel
Jan 12, 20213 min read
Fr. Maciej Zięba, O.P. (1954-2020)
A wretched year came to a sorrowful end when Father Maciej Zięba, OP, died in his native Wrocław, Poland, on December 31. The birthplace...
George Weigel
Jan 5, 20213 min read
Catholic coherence, Catholic integrity
In 2007, the bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean completed their fifth general conference with a final report, known from the...
George Weigel
Dec 29, 20203 min read
Thoughts on a pro-life picket line
One of Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s “Clinics for Abortion & Reproductive Excellence” – named to yield the Orwellian acronym CARE – is located...
George Weigel
Dec 22, 20203 min read
What the Magi teach us
Among the tenured professorial skeptics, few Gospel episodes have been sliced, diced, and tossed to the dissecting room floor as...
George Weigel
Dec 15, 20203 min read
On cages and evangelization in China
Joshua Wong is a young Chinese human rights activist, recently sentenced to 13 and a half months in prison on the Orwellian charge of...
George Weigel
Dec 1, 20203 min read
Books for Christmas – 2020
How bad a year has it been? Let me not count the ways. Good books can hearten us in 2021 and beyond, though. Herewith, then, some...
George Weigel
Nov 25, 20203 min read
Thanksgiving and the paradox of death
The juxtaposition of Thanksgiving with the Church’s annual month of prayer for the dead hadn’t previously struck me with force; that it...
George Weigel
Nov 17, 20203 min read
Hard lessons of the McCarrick Affair
From the day it was announced that the Vatican would conduct an investigation into the career of former Washington cardinal-archbishop...
George Weigel
Nov 3, 20203 min read
Three models of priestly goodness
The Pandemic of 2020 has been hard on every Catholic. Eucharistic fasting for this length of time may remind us what 20th century heroes...
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