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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
May 26, 20203 min read
Extraordinary evangelization in extraordinary times
I’d heard about Father Alexander Sherbrooke long before we met in June 2011; Father Sherbrooke had been a mentor for young friends of...
George Weigel
May 19, 20203 min read
Games intellectuals play
Shortly after President John F. Kennedy’s cabinet met for the first time, Vice President Lyndon Johnson waxed enthusiastic about the best...
George Weigel
May 13, 20203 min read
On John Paul II’s centenary
As the world and the Church mark the centenary of the birth of Pope St. John Paul II on May 18, a kaleidoscope of memories will shape my...
George Weigel
May 5, 20203 min read
Joseph Ratzinger, theological reformer
As he turned 93 on April 16, Joseph Ratzinger remained one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented men of consequence in recent...
George Weigel
Apr 29, 20203 min read
The “historic” Amazonian Synod, revisited
Given that he was one of the principal planners and prominent leaders of last October’s special Synod on Amazonia, Cardinal Claudio...
George Weigel
Apr 22, 20203 min read
Rediscovering baptism in plague time
On April 29, 1951, Father Thomas Love, SJ, baptized me in the Church of Sts. Philip and James, near Johns Hopkins University in...
George Weigel
Apr 7, 20203 min read
Embracing the kind of redeemer God appointed
The Gospel readings of Lent remind us that opposition to Jesus and his mission frequently grew out of the desire for a redeemer who was...
George Weigel
Mar 31, 20203 min read
Transforming quarantine into retreat
This bruising Lent, in which “fasting” has assumed unprecedented new forms, seems likely to be followed by an Eastertide of further...
George Weigel
Mar 17, 20203 min read
Churchmanship
“Churchmanship” is not a term in vogue today, and given the alleged inclusivity-deficit of such words it’s unlikely to make a comeback....
George Weigel
Mar 10, 20203 min read
Doubling down on a bad deal
Perseverance on a difficult but noble path is a virtue. Stubbornness when confronted by irrefutable evidence of a grave mistake is a...
George Weigel
Mar 3, 20203 min read
The clerisy of the concrete-and-glass box freaks out
Several years back, the estimable Father Paul Scalia observed, of some cultural idiocy or other, “Who knew the end of civilization would...
George Weigel
Feb 19, 20203 min read
Beyond Amazonia
The post-synodal apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia [Dear Amazonia] did not accept or endorse the 2019 Amazonian synod’s proposal...
George Weigel
Feb 11, 20203 min read
Flannery O’Connor and friends, revisited
Her fiction may occasionally get the chop in politically correct 21st-century American high schools. But as Benjamin Alexander writes in...
George Weigel
Jan 28, 20203 min read
The bullies and that book
Immediately after news broke on January 12 that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Cardinal Robert Sarah had written a book on the crisis of...
George Weigel
Jan 22, 20203 min read
Before the 2020 Presidentiad begins in earnest….
Americans not obsessed with politics — that is, most Americans — will start paying serious attention to the 2020 presidential race after...
George Weigel
Jan 14, 20203 min read
The Two Popes: Baloney, brilliantly acted
I first met Pope Emeritus Benedict in June 1988; over the next three decades, I’ve enjoyed many lengthy conversations and interviews with...
George Weigel
Jan 7, 20203 min read
The Martini Curve revisited
Pope Francis concluded his pre-Christmas address to the Roman Curia by invoking the memory of Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, SJ, who died...
George Weigel
Dec 31, 20193 min read
New Year’s Resolutions for Concerned Catholics: A Few Suggestions
During and after the grim martial law period in the early 1980s, many freedom-minded Poles would greet each other on January 1 with a...
George Weigel
Dec 24, 20193 min read
Christmas, freedom, and obedience
On December 17, the day the first “O Antiphon” signaled the intensification of preparations for Christmas, the Church read the genealogy...
George Weigel
Dec 17, 20193 min read
The well-fought fight
The incorporation of Anglican hymnody into English-language Catholic worship is one of the great blessings of the past 50 years. And...
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