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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.
On our need for the real Thomas More
Next month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the film, A Man for All Seasons . And if it’s impossible to imagine such a picture on such a...
George Weigel
Nov 22, 20163 min read
Gloucester fisherman, American veteran, Polish benefactor
Photo by Robert Breuer – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Two weeks before Veterans Day, 88-year old World War II vet Curtis Dagley of...
George Weigel
Nov 16, 20163 min read
Catholicism embodied: “The Pivotal Players”
Looking for some uplift after this tawdry election cycle? Some inspiration for tackling what lies ahead? A good way to enrich Advent?...
George Weigel
Nov 9, 20163 min read
The end of an era, the interment of an event
Alfred Emmanuel Smith (1873-1944) served as Governor of New York for four terms and earned the gratitude of all civilized people by...
George Weigel
Oct 25, 20163 min read
Russian Orthodoxy’s aggressive obsessions
What does the Lord’s injunction to turn the other cheek in Matthew 5:39 require when it comes to ecumenical dialogue? The question...
George Weigel
Oct 18, 20163 min read
Changing the game
For those of us who find it impossible to cast a vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump on November 8, this poem by Artur...
George Weigel
Oct 11, 20163 min read
Golden memories of a golden anniversary
After Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium was torn down in the old hometown in 2002, I began describing the vast empty space left behind as “the...
George Weigel
Oct 4, 20163 min read
Speaking of “deplorables”….
You’d think presidential candidates would have learned that shooting from the lip in front of deep-pocket donors is asking for trouble....
Denver Catholic Staff
Sep 28, 20163 min read
The Vatican, China, and evangelical prudence
Recent remarks by the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, have fueled speculation about a possible exchange of...
Denver Catholic Staff
Sep 21, 20163 min read
They’re confessors, not ‘culture-warriors’
Like Shelby Foote’s three-volume masterpiece, The Civil War: A Narrative, Francis Parkman’s seven-volume colossus, France and England in...
Denver Catholic Staff
Sep 13, 20163 min read
Catholicism’s empty quarter
QUÉBEC CITY. The exit signs along Autoroute 40 between the quondam capital of New France and Montréal are a veritable Litany of the...
Denver Catholic Staff
Sep 6, 20163 min read
He’s <em>not</em> “turning his back to the people”
Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, caused a rumpus...
Denver Catholic Staff
Aug 30, 20163 min read
Joe Biden is Isaac Hecker’s fault?
U.S. Catholics generally know little about the Church’s history in our country. But whether you’re trying to fill gaps in your knowledge...
Denver Catholic Staff
Aug 23, 20163 min read
God and Brexit
Ever since the United Kingdom decided in June to leave the European Union, contending (and sometimes overlapping) explanations have been...
Denver Catholic Staff
Aug 17, 20163 min read
Trump, Kaine, and more illusions
The following, instructive nugget comes from Times of London columnist Tim Montgomerie, writing in late July after a visit to a South...
Denver Catholic Staff
Jul 28, 20163 min read
Homelessness, party-style
I grew up in what you might call a genetically-Democratic family, but one in which partisan heterodoxy was not uncommon. My parents voted...
Denver Catholic Staff
Jul 22, 20163 min read
The Ostpolitik failed. Get over it.
In the 1960s, Popes John XXIII and Paul VI initiated a new Vatican approach to the countries behind the iron curtain, the Ostpolitik....
Denver Catholic Staff
Jul 19, 20163 min read
The last Puritan statesman and the 2016 conventions
Had I the resources, the one new book I’d give every delegate to the national political conventions meeting later this month is James...
Denver Catholic Staff
Jul 12, 20163 min read
On not settling for mediocrity
CRACOW. With World Youth Day 2016 beginning here in less than three weeks, thoughts naturally turn to Pope St. John Paul II and his...
Denver Catholic Staff
Jul 5, 20163 min read
Confessions of an “elitist”
The term “elitist” has been bandied about so promiscuously in this election cycle that it’s become virtually content-free. Yet “elitist”...
Denver Catholic Staff
Jun 21, 20163 min read
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