Easter Is Not a Question Mark
March 23, 2016
The grittiness of Lent, and the “intransigent historical claims” without which Easter makes no sense at all, should remind us...
George Weigel
A Sordid Anniversary, To Be Remembered
March 16, 2016
The crucial moment in this calculated aggression came 70 years ago, on March 8-10, 1946, in Lviv, Ukraine. There, after...
Resisting the Demagogue
March 10, 2016
YOU’VE GOT TO have a good memory for mid-Sixties pop music to remember the Seekers, an Aussie quartet that once...
Ukraine’s Greek Catholic Heroes
March 3, 2016
Ever since the Maidan revolution of dignity, Russian propaganda has been pumped into the world in a steady stream. Most...
ISIS, Genocide and The US Response
February 17, 2016
Martyrdom is a daily fact of life wherever the black flag of ISIS stains the Mesopotamian sky.
An Invitation to a Roman Lent
February 11, 2016
This week, George Weigel writes about the best Lent of his life in Rome, where he participated in the city’s...
Anger and Citizenship
February 4, 2016
I hope that, as the 2016 campaign unfolds, the electorate will begin to understand that anger is not a particularly...
Opportunity Amid Demographic Crisis
January 28, 2016
State-sponsored cruelty has been a staple of the human condition for millennia. But has there ever been a more wicked...
Ukraine: A Country at The Crossroads
January 21, 2016
When Ukraine celebrated Christmas two weeks ago, there were ample reasons for pessimism about that long-suffering country’s future.
Dear Father: Pray the Black, Do the Red
January 13, 2016
In all the 16 documents of the Second Vatican Council, is there any prescription more regularly violated than General Norm...