Duty requires me to note what’s wrong with soccer (a.k.a. “football”) in general and the FIFA World Cup in particular.
Author: George Weigel
Remembering Robert Wilken
Robert Louis Wilken — radical Christian disciple, devoted husband and father, distinguished patristics scholar, elegant writer, serious baseball guy — died on June 6, a few months short of age 90.
A 250th Birthday Meditation
As we thank God for the gift of the U.S., let us remind ourselves and each other that freedom is not license and is never free.
The Strength of Jimmy Lai
What can his fellow Catholics do for Jimmy Lai at the moment? We can hold him in prayer every day. We can urge the administration to continue to press for Jimmy’s release, and we can urge our representatives and senators to press the administration to keep pressing the Chinese regime.
John Paul II and America
It’s probably fair to say that John Paul II began his papacy with an impression of American Catholicism not dissimilar from that of other European intellectuals: The U.S. Church had an enviable network of institutions — ranging from parishes to health care and social service facilities to schools, colleges, and universities — but the Church was more wealthy than cultured and lived too comfortably within the American status quo.
The Peace That We Can Make
Repetition, it’s said, can be the mother of learning. So, in light of recent Catholic debates about the pursuit of peace in the Middle East and elsewhere, permit me to reprise, with slight adjustments, parts of a column from 24 years ago.
The Culture of Death Loses One
Legislative vigilance is essential. So is building the culture of life by expanding access to palliative end-of-life care.
‘Centesimus Annus’ at 35
“Centesimus annus” was a call to think about free politics and free economics as more than mechanisms. Democracy and the market, the Pope John Paul II insisted, are not machines that can run by themselves.
In Thanksgiving for The Gift of Baptism
Over these 75 years, I have experienced the vocation of sanctity in so many ways, each of which has left its imprint on my soul and my spiritual life.
‘Ecclesiacide,’ Then and Now
Pardon the Latin-rooted neologism, but if “patricide” works for murdering your father and “regicide” for taking out a king, why not “ecclesiacide” for trying to kill an entire Church?