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George Weigel

George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Another Assault On John Paul II

July 29, 2022

On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II had lunch in the papal apartment with Dr. Jerome Lejeune, the renowned...

The Irrepressible Midge Decter

July 22, 2022

About two-thirds of the way through that fine 1992 film, A League of Their Own, star catcher Dottie Hinson has...

The Lessons of Russian Warmaking

July 15, 2022

Four and a half months after Russia invaded Ukraine on the Orwellian pretext of displacing a “Nazi” regime — a...

Dobbs and the U.S. Vindication

July 5, 2022

Prior to June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court’s most important civil rights decision was handed down on May 17, 1954....

Demythologizing Papal Conclaves

June 17, 2022

Pope Francis’s recent announcement that he will create 21 new cardinals on August 27, 16 of whom would vote in...

Summer Reading on Ukraine: A Primer

June 8, 2022

Given the rubbish about Ukraine spewed out by Russian trolls and regurgitated by foolish or ideologically besotted Americans, this year’s...

Cardinal Zen And Jimmy Lai

May 25, 2022

Tertullian, the first major Christian theologian to write in Latin, is thought to have coined the maxim Semen est sanguis...

Dobbs Hysteria & Russian Disinfo

May 20, 2022

There are striking parallels between the Russian disinformation campaign that continues to foul the global communications space in the third...