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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.

U.S. Catholics and religious liberty: The origins

Several months ago, I came across a two-volume history of the Church in the United States I’d never read before: Theodore Maynard’s “The Story...

U.S. Catholics and religious liberty: The origins

Several months ago, I came across a two-volume history of the Church in the United States I’d never read before: Theodore Maynard’s “The Story...

The Cristeros and us

Most Americans haven’t the foggiest idea that a quasi-Stalinist, violently anti-Catholic regime once existed on our southern borders. Those who don’t know how bad...

Critter prayers and transhumanism

Posed as ever on the cutting edge of the politically correct and theologically dubious, the Episcopal Church–U.S.A. will soon consider adopting a Burial Service...

Charles W. Colson, R.I.P.

Back in the days when Chuck Colson was willing to run over his grandmother for Richard Nixon, I would have happily done the same...

Biblical illiteracy and Bible Babel

One of the disappointments of the post-Vatican II period has been the glacial pace of the growth in Catholic biblical literacy the Council hoped...

Pugin at 200

The prospect of “redecorating,” or any other form of “home improvement,” generally gets me thinking, quickly, about a lengthy research trip abroad. Yet I...

Rosa DeLauro, CNS, and the disoriented Catholic left

One does wonder, sometimes, just what goes on at Catholic News Service (CNS), an agency that wouldn’t exist were it not for the U.S....

Philip II, China and the Great Catholic What-If

History being linear, “What if….?” is an unanswerable question—but always a fascinating one. What if George Washington had failed in New York in the...

Jimmy Carter, biblical scholar and theologian

Given the specter of James Buchanan, the question of whether Jimmy Carter was the worst president in the history of the Republic must remain...

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