George Weigel

In To Sanctify the World, I suggest that the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI should be understood as one, continuous, thirty-five-year arc of conciliar interpretation.  Continue Reading »

President Biden's claims to being fully Catholic are an embarrassment for the Church due to his vehement advocacy for abortion. Continue Reading »

Want to know what a world without order, a world in which even tacit rules are flouted with seeming impunity, looks like? Continue Reading »

Some today think Vatican II was a big mistake, though examination reveals the opposite.  Continue Reading »

Is there anything new to be said about the Second Vatican Council? I think there is. And I hope to have said it in To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II, which has just been published by Basic Books. Continue Reading »

The new document by the USCCB in preparation for the 2021–2023 Synod on Synodality overlooks the surging vibrancy of Catholicism in America.  Continue Reading »

Upon examination, one finds that Queen Elizabeth II's “one misstep” was not a misstep at all.  Continue Reading »

Surveying the world Catholic scene today, there are several questions to be settled, if evangelization is to be fruitful in drawing others to, or back to, Christ. Continue Reading »

Lay Catholics can be helpful in identifying potential bishops with the apostolic zeal, and with the personal qualities and skills needed to be a leader whom others are eager to follow.  Continue Reading »

Until early 1939, much of the civilized world refused to believe that Hitler meant what he wrote. Rather, the civilized world averted its eyes from what it should have recognized as the unmistakable threat posed by a re-arming Germany. Continue Reading »