George Weigel

The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, claims that the USCCB has made no mention of prohibiting Communion to pro-abortion politicians. This simply is not true. Continue Reading »

A vignette from Victorian England offers a good starting point for thinking about the current state of the Western civilizational project. The place: the village of Olton in England’s West Midlands. The date: October 2, 1873. The occasion: the dedication of a new Catholic seminary, St. . . . . Continue Reading »

The world media should shine a spotlight on China’s human rights abuses, its draconian methods of social monitoring, and its religious intolerance. Continue Reading »

George Weigel recommends books for your Christmas shopping list. Continue Reading »

As the Declaration of Independence affirms, we never walk alone, but in the care of the God who gave us life and liberty at the same time.    Continue Reading »

Catholics who take the texts of Vatican II seriously refuse to truckle to, and in fact resist, those cultural aggressors who think of human beings as mere twitching bundles of morally-equal desires. Continue Reading »

Revitalizing a eucharistic Church requires a new clarity among the people of the Church about the nature of the eucharistic community—and what actions estrange Catholics from it.    Continue Reading »

John Paul II became the most politically consequential pope since the High Middle Ages by being a witness to Christ and to the truths about our humanity.  Continue Reading »

The men and women of Flight 93 who chose not to flinch in the face of wickedness affirmed the dignity of human life.  Continue Reading »

Receiving the Eucharist is a statement of one’s full communion with the Church. Making that clear, by instruction if possible and disciplinary action if necessary, is a pastoral obligation. Continue Reading »