Conscience and grace: A Lenten meditation February 22, 2018By George Weigel Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference Lent calls us to embrace the humility of the Gospel publican and confess that we have sinned, knowing that God’s mercy can heal what is broken in us if we cooperate with his grace.
Men without conviction, churches without people February 8, 2018By George Weigel Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference Christianity is dying in western Europe. But the Gospel has power, and those who believe that, and preach it in the conviction that it can transform and ennoble lives, can still get a hearing.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church at 25 October 19, 2017By George Weigel Filed Under: Blog, The Catholic Difference If you’ve not read it, this silver jubilee is a good occasion to do so. Then share the Catechism with a friend.
It’s a culture war, stupid August 28, 2017By George Weigel Filed Under: Commentary, Respect Life, The Catholic Difference To reduce a human being to an object whose value is measured by “utility” is to destroy one of the building blocks of the democratic order – the moral truth that the American Declaration of Independence calls the “inalienable” right to “life.”
Way beyond the New Atheist nonsense June 15, 2017By George Weigel Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference The Bible teaches that God impressed his intelligibility onto the world through creation by the Word.
