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

George WeigelSeptember 16, 20205 min read
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
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Rediscovering the reality of the Eucharist

George WeigelAugust 17, 20204 min read
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?
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If not for the glory of God, then for what?

George WeigelAugust 6, 20205 min read
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?
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Will Nancy Pelosi take a page from her father’s playbook?

George WeigelJune 25, 20205 min read
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
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Extraordinary evangelization in extraordinary times

George WeigelJune 9, 20204 min read
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
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Rediscovering baptism in plague time

George WeigelMay 3, 20204 min read
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
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Flannery O’Connor and friends, revisited

George WeigelFebruary 18, 20204 min read
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
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Christmas, freedom and obedience

George WeigelDecember 25, 20194 min read
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
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The well-fought fight

George WeigelDecember 18, 20194 min read
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
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The ideological hijacking of Pope St. John XXIII

George WeigelOctober 24, 20194 min read
The dying parts of the Church are those still misreading John XXIII.
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