Tag: George Weigel
Keeping (or Making) Catholic Education Great
What are the five essential “marks” of Catholic education? One US bishop who converted to Catholicism while studying the Great Books, suggests there are five. Here George Weigel adds his own reflections on each.
Choking on rights talk
The promiscuous use of rights talk as a rhetorical intensifier is no more pernicious than in the issue of abortion. How can we talk of rights when the killing of the unborn is concerned? And how can we tolerate the effect of this evasion on our public discourse, asks George Weigel.
George Weigel: Witness to Hope’s twenty-five year-long legacy
My hands were shaky a quarter-century ago as I carried the heavy box from the front door of our house into my study. Inside were my author’s copies of Witness to Hope, the first volume of my biography of Pope John Paul II, and my mind was racing.
Repurposing the Catholic Campaign for Human Development
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development was an interesting idea in its time. That time has passed and a new model is needed for Catholic welfare—one that recognises the church’s teaching and strengths, writes George Weigel.
“Reminders” about Ukraine
“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed,” Samuel Johnson once wrote. In that spirit, George Weigel offers some “reminders” to sceptics and waverers on the war in Ukraine.
George Weigel’s (Northern Hemisphere) Summer Reading List
As the Northern Hemisphere enters their warm, summer days, George Weigel has produced a reading list that anyone can enjoy, regardless of season.
Ticket to oblivion?
St John Henry Newman, among the church’s most brilliant modern converts, opposed himself above all else to one “great mischief.” As the October Synod approaches, we would do well to listen to the English saint’s warning…
Invoking John Paul the Great
The recent 10th anniversary Mass of St John Paul II’s canonisation was something of a “grand recapitulation” of the John Paul II years, writes George Weigel.
Dignitas Infinitas could’ve been stronger
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s new document on human dignity underscores the Catholic Church’s commitment to human dignity and defence of life from conception to natural death. It’s a good document, but George Weigel makes a few suggestions about how it could have been stronger
Ideology and blasphemy meet in Russia
A recent document from the Russian Orthodox Church under Patriarch Kirill attempts to spiritualise and sanctify the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Holy See would do well to rally Christian leaders to condemn the notion that Russia is waging a “holy war” and has a special mission from God in the 21st century, writes George Weigel.
George Weigel: Baseball and rumours of angels
Signs of transcendence are embedded in our reality everywhere, giving the lie to our supposedly “secular” world. From the love of mothers to the love of baseball, we must be attuned to these signs when we experience them, writes George Weigel
Christ’s cross is the ‘why’ of the whole cosmos
The redemption wrought in Christ is not a kind of addendum to Creation. Rather, our Easter faith confesses we live in a cosmos that is purposeful because it is Christocentric, writes George Weigel.