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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.
Whose republic? Which “liberalism”?
Extra credit question: Name the author of this admonition about the insecure cultural foundations and potentially perilous future of the...
George Weigel
Jun 18, 20193 min read
Restoring, and strengthening, episcopal credibility
Pope Francis’s recent motu proprio on sexual abuse, Vos estis lux mundi [You Are the Light of the World], was a welcome addition to...
George Weigel
Jun 4, 20193 min read
Biden, Bernardin, and today
Given the seriousness with which the post-Watergate Washington Post takes itself, it seems unlikely that its editors strive for hilarity...
George Weigel
May 28, 20193 min read
The Pell case: Developments down under
In three weeks, a panel of senior judges will hear Cardinal George Pell’s appeal of the unjust verdict rendered against him at his...
George Weigel
May 21, 20193 min read
On the composting of thee and me
In Herman Wouk’s novel, War and Remembrance , Warren Henry shocks his Bible-reading father, the novel’s hero, by claiming that human...
George Weigel
May 7, 20193 min read
Truth-telling and Big Abortion
For over a half-century, what styles itself the “pro-choice” movement has thrived because of its extraordinary ability to mask what it’s...
George Weigel
Apr 30, 20193 min read
The Ratzinger Diagnosis
Published a week short of his 92nd birthday, Joseph Ratzinger’s essay on the epidemiology of the clergy sex-abuse crisis vividly...
George Weigel
Apr 23, 20193 min read
The Easter Effect today
Some two millennia ago, a ragtag bunch of nobodies learned what their tortured and executed friend, the rabbi Jesus from Nazareth, meant...
George Weigel
Apr 16, 20193 min read
The high-priced spread, revisited
Readers of a certain vintage (say, over 60) will remember the Imperial Margarine TV ad that dismissed butter as “the high-priced spread.”...
George Weigel
Apr 2, 20193 min read
The Holy See and Cardinal Pell
Cardinal George Pell’s December 2018 conviction on charges of “historic sexual abuse” was a travesty of justice, thanks in part to a...
George Weigel
Mar 12, 20193 min read
Cardinal Pell: Our Dreyfus Case
In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the French Army was convicted of treason on the grounds that he had given military secrets to...
George Weigel
Mar 5, 20193 min read
Homecoming
In the mid-1980s, my wife and I were invited to a baptism and to the post-christening reception at the home of the newborn’s parents....
George Weigel
Feb 26, 20193 min read
The ever-present totalitarian temptation
First circulated underground in communist Czechoslovakia in October 1978, Vaclav Havel’s brilliant dissection of totalitarianism, “The...
George Weigel
Feb 12, 20193 min read
The moral depravity of Andrew Cuomo & Friends
Writing recently on women seeking the presidency and the “likability” factor in our politics, Peggy Noonan made a tart observation:...
George Weigel
Feb 5, 20193 min read
The courageous honesty of Peter Steinfels
Peter Steinfels’s long career in journalism included years of service as editor of Commonweal (from which perch he took me to the...
George Weigel
Jan 29, 20193 min read
Squandering moral capital
The morality of tyrannicide is not much discussed in today’s kinder, gentler Catholic Church. Yet that difficult subject once engaged...
George Weigel
Jan 23, 20193 min read
Nothing about us without us
The slogan “Nothing about us without us” was used by Solidarity in the 1980s in Poland, borrowing a royal motto from the...
George Weigel
Jan 15, 20193 min read
Lay collaboration and episcopal authority
The Vatican is a hotbed of rumor, gossip, and speculation at the best of times — and these times are not those times. The Roman...
George Weigel
Jan 8, 20193 min read
Soho Pilgrimage: A Christmas Meditation
Advent and Christmastide are full of journeys and pilgrimages: Mary goes to Judea to visit Elizabeth. Mary and Joseph journey to...
George Weigel
Dec 26, 20183 min read
Books for Christmas
Take a stand against the electronification of everything — give (real) books this Christmas. Some recommendations: Paul: A Biography ,...
George Weigel
Dec 19, 20183 min read
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