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George Weigel
Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, George Weigel is a Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals.
It’s Howdy Doody Time!
Three or four times each month, Father X (as I’ll call him here) celebrates the noontime daily Mass I regularly attend. I’m grateful for...
George Weigel
Jun 20, 20173 min read
Thoughts on the Western Wall, Fifty Years Later
Photographs can capture exceptional moments in an iconic way, making the original experience “present” emotionally as well as...
George Weigel
Jun 7, 20173 min read
Interreligious dialogue with edge and purpose
The evening of September 12, 2006, was, in a word, memorable. My wife and I were having dinner in Cracow with two of John Paul II’s...
George Weigel
May 31, 20173 min read
Catholic Lite and Europe’s demographic suicide
Ten years ago, after my meditation on Europe, The Cube and the Cathedral , had appeared in several languages, I was invited to speak to...
George Weigel
May 23, 20173 min read
The fifty-day party
If you can find it in your attic, open your old, pre-Vatican II missal, and look at the Sundays between Easter and Pentecost, which are...
George Weigel
May 9, 20173 min read
Let’s not make a deal…at least <em>this</em> deal
Helping those who have broken away from the Catholic Church come back into full communion is a noble endeavor. But such reconciliations...
George Weigel
Apr 25, 20173 min read
The importance of Jackie Robinson
In the history of the modern American civil rights movement, three iconic moments are typically cited. May 17, 1954: The U.S. Supreme...
George Weigel
Apr 18, 20173 min read
The power of the Cross
Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890) – a theologian who came to prominence in the Victorian Age – can help us check the Church’s...
George Weigel
Apr 12, 20173 min read
Waugh’s "Helena", Father General, and the reality of revelation
Evelyn Waugh’s slim and critically unappreciated novel, Helena, was something of a literary experiment for a modern master of English...
George Weigel
Mar 29, 20173 min read
On “owning” the Church
The question of “who owns the Church” has had a stormy history in Catholic America, although the terms of reference have changed...
George Weigel
Mar 21, 20173 min read
Persuasive disciples, not anarchic disrupters
We are living through a dangerous moment in our national life, of an intensity and potential for destruction unseen since 1968. Then, a...
George Weigel
Mar 14, 20173 min read
Paul, Apollos, and Cephas, all over again
In April 2016, Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth, England, issued a pastoral letter on the interpretation of Amoris Laetitia (the Pope’s...
George Weigel
Feb 14, 20173 min read
Synod-talk, again
On January 13 the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops published a “preparatory document” for the 2018 Synod on Young People,...
George Weigel
Feb 8, 20173 min read
Theology isn’t math; but it <em>is</em> theology
During the heyday of the Solidarity movement, a famous Polish slogan had it that, “For Poland to be Poland, 2 + 2 Must Always = 4”. It...
George Weigel
Jan 25, 20173 min read
Fake history
Speaking of public policy debates, Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said that, while everyone had a right to his opinion, no one had a...
George Weigel
Jan 18, 20173 min read
Lessons from an era of confusion
In the introduction to Aggiornamento on the Hill of Janus: The American College in Rome, 1955-1979, Msgr. Stephen DiGiovanni warns...
George Weigel
Jan 8, 20173 min read
New Year’s wishes for some Catholic brethren
2017 promises to be a challenging year for the Catholic Church. Thus some new year’s wishes: I wish Catholic progressives a calmer 2017...
George Weigel
Jan 4, 20173 min read
Christmas and the divine proximity
In October 2001 I had a long conversation with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. It was but weeks after 9/11; a new century and millennium were...
George Weigel
Dec 21, 20163 min read
The Persecution of Professor Esolen
(Image courtesy of Province of Saint Joseph via Flickr ) Professor Anthony Esolen is a bright jewel in the crown of Catholic higher...
George Weigel
Dec 13, 20163 min read
Books for Christmas
Take a stand against the electrification of reading and consider the following, in properly bound form, as gifts for those on your...
George Weigel
Dec 7, 20163 min read
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