Looking Toward Nov. 8
January 8, 2016
TO REDEPLOY A phrase from President Gerald Ford, our “long national nightmare” – in this case, the semi-permanent presidential campaign...
George Weigel
Christmas and a World Upside Down
December 23, 2015
Preachers at Christmas often emphasize the lowliness of the Christ Child’s birth. This pattern of inversion – turning everything upside-down...
Recalling Two Great American Bishops
December 20, 2015
WE AMERICAN CATHOLICS are, in the main, notoriously uninterested in our own history. So it likely escaped the notice of...
Books for Christmas
December 10, 2015
IT'S BEEN A good reading year and I highly recommend the following to the readers on your Christmas (not “holiday”)...
Synod 2015, Revisited
December 3, 2015
AS I WRITE, just before Thanksgiving, it’s been over a month since Synod-2015 finished its work. Yet, there is still...
A Thanksgiving Meditation
November 25, 2015
Shortly after jihadist murderers killed over 130 people in Paris, with seven of the terrorists blowing themselves up in the...
The Grittiness of Christian Faith
November 20, 2015
JERUSALEM – Walking through the narrow, winding streets of Jerusalem’s Old City on my first visit here in 15 years,...
John Paul II’s ‘Beloved Kraków’
November 13, 2015
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, Father Raymond de Souza, one of my fellow faculty members at an annual Kraków-based summer seminar on...
The Speaker and Social Doctrine
November 5, 2015
Over 40 years of teaching and writing about Catholic social doctrine, George Weigel has known three men who had the...
Saints as Spouses
October 29, 2015
ROME – Amidst all the Sturm und Drang of Synod 2015, something genuinely new in the life of the Church...