59.2 F
Denver
Thursday, April 25, 2024

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.

Books for Christmas 2023

Advent-2023 is as short as Advent can be, so this annual column on Christmas gift books that will inspire, entertain, inform, or all of...

When docs play deities

With the God of the Bible having largely disappeared from public consciousness in Great Britain, the closest thing to a replacement deity is the...

A “synodal reform” of the papal conclave?

As Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day on November 23, my Catholic fellow-citizens might take a moment to give thanks for a 120-year old apostolic constitution...

In support of Jimmy Lai

As chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, John Lee is the principal enforcer of the Chinese communist regime’s ever-tightening chokehold on...

The grave sin of Jew-hatred

Shortly after the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, I noted in this column and elsewhere that the entire episode — including the fouling of...

All Saints, All Souls, and Synod-2023

By their vocabulary, you shall know them? Well, to a considerable degree. And in these early November days, when the Church celebrates all the...

The Synod on Synodality at the Halfway Point      

The Synod on Synodality meeting this month is the first of a two-part synodal assembly; the second session is scheduled to meet a year...

Questions to enliven Synod-2023

The first session of the “Synod on Synodality,” currently meeting in Rome, is slated to be followed by a second such month-long affair in...

The most important Catholic event since Vatican II?

Those most enthusiastic about the Synod on Synodality that opens on October 4 want to say that it’s the most important Catholic event since...

The Blessed Ulma Family and our Catholic moment

It’s a rare occasion when the word “unprecedented” can be used for a Church whose history extends over two millennia. Yet something unprecedented happened...

Latest Articles