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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.

The War of the Conciliar Succession, continued

While I’ve never been able to remember the details of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the War of the Austrian Succession...

The lessons of Russian warmaking

CRACOW. Four and a half months after Russia invaded Ukraine on the Orwellian pretext of displacing a “Nazi” regime — a regime that enjoys...

Dobbs and the vindication of American democracy

Prior to June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court’s most important civil rights decision was handed down on May 17, 1954. Then, in Brown...

Recycling the same old same old

In December 2021 and May 2022, I had the pleasure of teaching a mini-course in Rome, exploring the life and thought of St. John...

Demythologizing conclaves

Pope Francis’s recent announcement that he will create 21 new cardinals on August 27, 16 of whom would vote in a conclave held after...

The Summer Reading List: A Ukrainian Primer

Given the rubbish about Ukraine spewed out by Russian propaganda trolls and regurgitated by foolish or ideologically besotted Americans, this year’s annual Summer Reading...

Fly-casting before D-Day

With a gracious assist from former Kansas governor Sam Brownback, I had the privilege of a personal tour of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential...

The cardinal and Jimmy

Tertullian, the first major Christian theologian to write in Latin, is thought to have coined the maxim Semen est sanguis Christianorum, typically (and rather...

Dobbs hysteria and Russian disinformation

There are striking parallels between the Russian disinformation campaign that continues to foul the global communications space in the third month of the war...

A new patron saint for Catholic journalism

ROME. As of May 15, Catholic journalists around the world will be able to count one of their number among the saints, as Titus...

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