George Weigel

Effective leadership at the highest political level demands not only wit and wisdom but dramatic craft that rises above demagogy.  Continue Reading »

As history, the Netflix film The Two Popes is baloney on steroids. Continue Reading »

The local Churches that have tried hardest to play catch-up with “history” and “the times” are collapsing. Continue Reading »

Suggested resolutions that might help us all deal with the year ahead in faith, hope, and charity. Continue Reading »

True freedom, genuine liberation, comes through freely chosen obedience to God’s purposes. Continue Reading »

Like many other hymns, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “For All the Saints” is an endangered species today. Continue Reading »

A list of book recommendations for Christmas.  Continue Reading »

The highest judicial authority in Australia will review the Cardinal George Pell case in 2020.  Continue Reading »

Fifty years ago, the Catholic Church marked the First Sunday of Advent with the universal implementation of the revised Roman Rite of the Mass. The liturgy wars have not abated since.  Continue Reading »

German foreign minister Heiko Maas's essay on the fall of the Berlin Wall failed to mention the pivotal figure in the Revolution of 1989: Pope St. John Paul II. Continue Reading »