George Weigel is distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
Jackie Robinson’s accomplishments should rank as high as anyone’s in the pantheon of civil rights heroes. Continue Reading »
The temptation to reduce Christianity to a comfortable lifestyle option has been around a long time. Against Christian happy-talk, the Cross stands in stark relief. Continue Reading »
If Charles Chaput does not embody the spiritual and pastoral qualities the pope says he values in bishops, no one does. Continue Reading »
Evelyn Waugh’s slim and critically unappreciated novel, Helena, is, at bottom, an act of faith in the reality of revelation. Continue Reading »
No earthly power creates the Church and no earthly power owns the Church. The Church was created by the Lord Jesus, and it is his, not ours. Continue Reading »
In today’s deeply divided America, the public debate is too often being framed by those who substitute invective for argument while demonstrating a visceral contempt for normal democratic political and legal process. Unless reason reasserts itself over passion, the potential for short-term chaos is great and the risk of long-term damage even greater. Continue Reading »
For Lent 2016, I adopted a new Forty Days discipline in addition to intensified prayer, daily almsgiving, and letting my liver have its annual vacation: I quit sports talk radio, cold turkey. Continue Reading »
There’s no better way to enter into the pilgrim character of the season that to participate in the 7 a.m. stational Mass led by the priest and students of the North American College. Continue Reading »
The political and economic system created by the United States and its allies after World War II—a system built around common defense measures and free trade—rescued Europe from the self-inflicted catastrophe of 1914-1945, prevented nuclear war, preserved the peace until the collapse of the Soviet empire, and allowed once-captive nations to reclaim their liberties. Continue Reading »
We are living, today, the crisis of division that caused St. Paul such grief. And as the Church is universal, so is the crisis. Continue Reading »
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