George Weigel is distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
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George Weigel
Priests are still suffering the Long Lent of 2020, but at least they can rejoice this week in the beatification of Fr. McGivney. Continue Reading »
What is the thoughtful Catholic voter, who understands that the Church’s social doctrine cannot be confined in any partisan box, to do in this election cycle? Continue Reading »
Aspects of Mr. Biden’s Catholic self-presentation put me in mind of some of the folkways of pre-Vatican II tribal Catholicism. Continue Reading »
We must treat each other as mutually responsible individuals, not as embodiments of racial or ideological categories. Continue Reading »
A post-Roe America will have expelled a rotting bone from the national throat. Continue Reading »
Truman authorized the use of the atomic bombs thinking, rightly, that doing so would save American and Japanese lives by shocking Japan into surrender. Continue Reading »
The loss of the Papal States was a great boon to the papacy and to the Church’s evangelical mission. Continue Reading »
Father Paul V. Mankowski, SJ, will be remembered as a man who, remaining faithful to his Jesuit and sacerdotal vocations, became a tower of strength for others. Continue Reading »
It is fatuous to dismiss concerns over the rinsing-out of religious freedom as the overwrought fretting of culture warriors. Continue Reading »
Where the Council is interpreted in a Christ-centered way, evangelization thrives. Continue Reading »
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