Father Mankowski, who died suddenly Sept. 3, was ‘off-the-charts brilliant’ September 16, 2020By George Weigel Syndicated Columnist Filed Under: Commentary, Obituaries, The Catholic Difference He rarely expressed doubts about anything; but he displayed a great sensitivity to the doubts and confusions of those who had the humility to confess that they were at sea.
Rediscovering the reality of the Eucharist August 17, 2020By George Weigel Syndicated Columnist Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference Teaching the truth of the Eucharist is thus a task for this moment, turning plague time into a time of renewed faith in the wonder of what we are offered in holy communion.
If not for the glory of God, then for what? August 6, 2020By George Weigel Syndicated Columnist Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference Ad maiorem Dei gloriam [For the greater glory of God], often reduced to the abbreviation, AMDG, was the Latin motto of St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus. Georgetown Prep is a Jesuit school. So what happened to the D-word? What happened to God? Why did AMDG become AM[D]G while being translated into fundraising English?
Will Nancy Pelosi take a page from her father’s playbook? June 25, 2020By George Weigel Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference If inner-city and other low- and middle-income Catholic schools are emptied because of unbearable financial pressures on parents, there will be multiple victims.
Extraordinary evangelization in extraordinary times June 9, 2020By George Weigel Filed Under: Commentary, Coronavirus, The Catholic Difference What Father Sherbrooke has done at St. Patrick’s in London in his 17 years as its pastor is little short of miraculous.
Rediscovering baptism in plague time May 3, 2020By George Weigel Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference Let me urge you again: make this time of plague and quarantine the occasion to dig the “Catholic paper” out of your records, find your baptismal certificate, and learn the date of your baptism. And then, with appropriate celebration, ponder just what happened to you that day.
Flannery O’Connor and friends, revisited February 18, 2020By George Weigel Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Commentary, The Catholic Difference At the end, that is the deepest impression her letters leave: here is a woman of extraordinary courage whose configuration of her life to the Cross was a source of both personal strength and literary genius.
Christmas, freedom and obedience December 25, 2019By George Weigel Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference The Christmas story is a lengthy meditation on a counterintuitive but essential truth: true freedom, genuine liberation, comes through freely chosen obedience to God’s purposes.
The well-fought fight December 18, 2019By George Weigel Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference Alas, like many other hymns, “For All the Saints” is an endangered species today, gutted by parish music directors and pastors who commit the grave sin of not singing a hymn in its entirety — or worse, who bowdlerize the lyrics to coddle the sensibilities of the Church of Nice.
The ideological hijacking of Pope St. John XXIII October 24, 2019By George Weigel Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference The dying parts of the Church are those still misreading John XXIII.
What kind of “believers”? October 10, 2019By George Weigel Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference Catholicism is dying in the German-speaking world, not because the Gospel has been proclaimed and found incredible or hard, but because it hasn’t been proclaimed with joy, confidence, and zeal.
As “The League” begins its centennial season…. September 6, 2019By George Weigel Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference Gino Marchetti of the old Baltimore Colts was a big man in several ways.
