George Weigel

The Catholic Church today is a field hospital and some of the triage doctors, rather than curing the wounded, are insisting that the hospital no longer tell people that landmines will kill you. Continue Reading »

Major-Archbishop Shevchuk and Archbishop Gudziak are brilliant exemplars of apostolic zeal and courage. They can be such models because they are men of holiness. Continue Reading »

Dear Gen Z brethren: Please stop confusing the blogosphere with reality, and please read what Vatican II actually taught. Continue Reading »

A study by the Center for Urban Renewal and Education determined that some 19 million black children had been aborted between 1973 and 2015. Continue Reading »

Woke “inclusion” is not authentic catholicity.  Continue Reading »

And as Cardinal Pell remarked after that memorable dinner, “Cardinal Zen really was the star tonight, wasn’t he?” Indeed, he was. Continue Reading »

George Pell was a courageous man who “en-couraged” others—who gave others courage, or, perhaps better, drew out of others the courage they did not know lay within them. Continue Reading »

The embodiment of Catholic fearlessness, Cardinal George Pell, has gone to his eternal reward. Those of us who loved him, and especially those of us fortunate enough to have collaborated with him, must now live that fearlessness and call others to it. Continue Reading »

A great talent for friendship across the divides of race and class informed Bob Andrews’s fiction even as it enriched his life and the lives of those drawn into his ample orbit. Continue Reading »

Joseph Ratzinger’s accomplishments as biblical expositor and theologian have been gratifyingly acknowledged over the past six days. Yet his insights into the drama of modern social and political life have rarely been mentioned. Continue Reading »