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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.

From Doubting Thomas to Doubting Peter?

Ralph Fiennes is a remarkable actor. And if he wins an Academy Award for his brilliant performance in Conclave, this section of his masterfully...

Stacked decks, “Conversation in the Spirit,” and the Catholic future

Various cultures — English, Turkish, Chinese — claim to have invented the maxim, “The fish rots from the head down” (a favorite in Your...

Jubilee 2025: New Year’s resolutions and resources

Jubilee 2025 began on Christmas Eve 2024, with the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s in Rome, and will conclude on January...

Jimmy and the Patriarch, at Christmas

The post-Christmas liturgical calendar may seem a bit Scrooge-like, as the child-centered, innocent joy of the Nativity is quickly followed by three feasts of...

Embassy Vatican: Some Demystifications

A change of presidential administrations typically leads to changes in U.S. diplomatic personnel abroad, especially at the ambassadorial level. This, in turn, leads to...

Books for Christmas – 2024

A friend told me recently that bookstores were making something of a comeback. I hope that’s true, because browsing bookstores is one of life’s...

“Luce,” mascot of dumbed-down Catholicism

During his years as professor of fundamental theology at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, Salvatore “Rino” Fisichella was often cited by American seminarians as their...

An Open Letter to J.D. Vance

Dear Senator Vance: As Americans celebrate a unique national holiday, the origins of which remind us that our democracy is an experiment in ordered liberty...

A great Christian witness, too little known in the West

​The Venerable Andrei Sheptytsky, who died eighty years ago on November 1, 1944, was one of 20th century Catholicism’s outstanding figures, whose remarkable life...

The continuing scandal of the Vatican’s China policy

In the annals of historical boorishness, it would be hard to find something more egregious than the Holy See’s timing as it renewed its...

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