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The Catholic Difference

‘Witness to Hope,’ 25 years later

September 4, 2024
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference

A quarter-century later, the memory of that silent embrace remains. So does my gratitude that Witness to Hope continues to strengthen the faith of Catholics and lead seekers to Christ and his Church.

“Reminders” about Ukraine

July 24, 2024
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference

Samuel Johnson, that great coiner of aphorisms, averred that “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.” In that Johnsonian spirit, here are some reminders about what has been happening in Ukraine, for Senator J.D. Vance and others who persist in certain confusions about the situation and its implications.

Aroused consciences changing history

July 4, 2024
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference

John Paul’s revolution of conscience began when he restored to the Polish people the truth about their history and culture, which Poland’s communist regime had both distorted and suppressed since 1945.

Summoning the heroes

May 29, 2024
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference

These heroes will never be memorialized by a John Williams composition. But their courage was nonetheless just as moving – and as indicative of the nobility of which human beings are capable – as that of any Olympic athlete.

Invoking John Paul the Great

May 21, 2024
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference

Last month’s anniversary Mass was something of a grand recapitulation of the John Paul II years.

Two who didn’t run

March 7, 2024
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference

Both Stanley Rother and Alexei Navalny exemplified the cardinal virtue of courage, which is also a gift of the Holy Spirit.

The MAD magazine caricature of U.S. Catholicism

January 4, 2024
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference

U.S. Catholicism’s intellectual life is robust, dynamically orthodox, and culture-enriching — unlike Catholic intellectual life in those large swathes of western Europe where “Follow the Zeitgeist to Mordor” is the order of the day.

Christmas in a time of war

December 20, 2023
By George Weigel
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, The Catholic Difference

What shall we make of the burning Holy Land, during a Christmastide when we celebrate the angelic announcement of a messianic birth that marks the inbreaking of the peaceable kingdom of Isaiah 11:6-9?

German Catholicism: on the brink or at the cutting edge?

December 13, 2023
By George Weigel
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Synodality, The Catholic Difference

Some of those in charge of the “Synod on Synodality” may have regarded the German “Synodal Path” as a useful instrument in clearing the path for a dramatic reconfiguration of Catholic self-understanding and governance, moving the goalposts so far to the left that the old 50-yard line of the Catholic Vital Center would now be the old left end zone.

From Westerplatte to Lisbon…and everywhere else

August 2, 2023
By George Weigel
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference, World Youth Day Portugal 2023

John Paul, who had more pastoral contact with young adults than any pope in modern history, knew that young people wanted something more than ease: he understood from experience that deep within the young heart is a yearning for meaning, for nobility, for greatness.

Latinity and sanctity: Remembering Bishop Victor Galeone

June 21, 2023
By George Weigel
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, The Catholic Difference

Brilliance and humility met in Victor Galeone and were fused by hours of daily prayer that left callouses on his knees.

Churchmen of the Year

February 22, 2023
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference, War in Ukraine

Major-Archbishop Shevchuk and Archbishop Gudziak have borne a powerful global witness to the truths of Catholic faith amidst a moral monster’s genocidal assault on the people of Ukraine.

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