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George Weigel

George Weigel is the Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., a Catholic theologian and a Baltimore native.

The Summer Reading List: A Ukrainian Primer

June 9, 2022
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Feature, The Catholic Difference, War in Ukraine

Given the rubbish about Ukraine spewed out by Russian propaganda trolls and regurgitated by foolish or ideologically besotted Americans, this year’s annual Summer Reading List will focus on serious books that explain the background, including the religious dimension, of a conflict that will shape Europe’s future – and ours.

Marching toward a different future

January 19, 2022
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, Respect Life, The Catholic Difference

A post-Roe America will be one in which the pro-life movement must work with state legislators to provide legal protection to unborn children.

The sacred earthiness of Christmas

December 24, 2021
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Feature, The Catholic Difference

“Besides the cradle in which our Lord, it is alleged, was rocked, is the stone manger of the grotto of Bethlehem. One of the stones of this manger is shown in the basilica of St. Maria Maggiore on the Esquiline, in the altar of the crypt of the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.

On not buying into the mythology of “prestige” universities

October 14, 2021
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference

Parents and high school seniors making those tough college decisions would do well to look beyond the U.S. News and World Report college rankings and consider UD, Benedictine College, the University of Mary, Christendom College, Thomas Aquinas College, and other small Catholic liberal arts colleges.

A bold Catholic investment in inner city education

September 16, 2021
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Schools, The Catholic Difference

Today, inner-urban Catholic schools are a lifeline for children whose futures are being put at even greater risk by failing government schools and hidebound teachers’ unions that resist educational reform while engaging in various forms of ideological indoctrination.

Moral courage and the many cultures of death

August 4, 2021
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, The Catholic Difference

Ryszard Kuklinski was a genuine hero of the long, twilight struggle against communist totalitarianism — the man who helped prevent a bloody Soviet invasion of Poland to crush the nascent Solidarity movement.

The oldest cathedral and the newest challenge

June 2, 2021
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Baltimore Basilica, Commentary, The Catholic Difference

It’s now the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but for native Baltimoreans of a certain vintage (like me) it is, was, and always will be “the Old Cathedral:” the first of its kind in the United States

The Easter explosion

March 31, 2021
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, Easter, The Catholic Difference

What happened on Easter Sunday was the most explosive experience in human history, shattering all previous expectations of human destiny.

The world episcopate and the German apostasy

March 18, 2021
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference

The first responsibility here lies with the Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis, who should do what Pope St. Clement I did with the rowdy Corinthians in the immediate post-apostolic period and what Pope St. Gregory the Great did with brother bishops during the age of the Fathers: call the German bishops back to the “faith which was once for all delivered to the saints”

Father Mankowski, who died suddenly Sept. 3, was ‘off-the-charts brilliant’

September 16, 2020
By 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, 2020
By 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, 2020
By 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?

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