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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.

John Paul II’s Centesimus Annus and today’s debates

In a recent article on the social doctrine of John Paul II in the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica, Father Fernando de la Iglesia...

Ike’s insight

Three days before Christmas 1952 and a month before his inauguration as the 34th president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the...

On not being paralyzed by history (or the misunderstanding thereof) 

TRIGGER WARNING: The next few sentences will upset some of you.   There is a case to be made that the United States lost the Vietnam...

Blessed Henri de Lubac?

On March 31, the bishops of France announced that they would petition the Holy See for permission to open a beatification cause for Father...

The Catholic crisis over ‘us’

Cambridge historian Richard Rex has provocatively proposed that Catholicism today is embroiled in the third great crisis of its bimillennial history. The first crisis was...

Pacem in Terris after 60 years

On April 11, 1963, John XXIII issued the encyclical Pacem in Terris, a powerful call for a world in which there were neither victims...

They’re back!  

As the estimable Larry Chapp recently put it on his blog, Gaudium et Spes 22, “the deepest, most important, most contentious, most divisive, and...

Easter and history

Once upon a time, before the Cuisinart of advanced educational thinking reduced history, geography, and civics to the tasteless gruel of “social studies,” humanity’s...

John Paul II and me (and the Poles)

In the first chapter of Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy quoted an exasperated Congressman, John Steven McGroarty, who wrote an irritating constituent in...

Naaman, the Nazarenes, and the Germans

To vary Oscar Wilde, the Church’s liturgical life often imitates art by being strikingly appropriate to a particular moment. That was certainly true on...

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