George Weigel is distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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George Weigel
The Vatican must inform Patriarch Kirill that the Holy See’s ecumenical contacts with Russian Orthodoxy are suspended until Kirill condemns the invasion of Ukraine. Continue Reading »
As the Church enters Lent 2022, it is well to reflect on and pray over the Catholic understanding that doctrine is light, powerful, and liberating, which some parts of the world Church seem to have forgotten. Continue Reading »
Whatever the current military developments, a Russian invasion of Ukraine has not been “imminent”; the invasion is ongoing. Continue Reading »
The result of the Synodal Way will not be evangelical renewal but a further abandonment of the gospel. Continue Reading »
The overbearing micro-management of the Traditional Latin Mass comes perilously close to undercutting the teaching on episcopal authority laid down by the very council Traditionis Custodes and Archbishop Roche claim to defend. Continue Reading »
Christians live in a different time zone because of the communion of saints: our spiritual solidarity, in this world, with those Christians who now live in the presence of the Thrice-Holy God and those who are being purified. Continue Reading »
Putin is conducting a carefully orchestrated campaign to reverse history’s verdict in the Cold War and subjugate the now-independent former “republics” of the old Soviet Union. Continue Reading »
A post-Roe America will be a country that needs the March for Life as much as ever, and perhaps even more. Continue Reading »
By desacralizing state power, Christianity helped make possible the idea of the limited state, which was not an immaculate conception sprung from the mind of John Locke. Continue Reading »
No matter what the vicissitudes and trials of history, Christians live in a different time zone: the time zone of salvation history. Continue Reading »
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