George Weigel commeNTARY CommentaryRespect LifeThe Catholic Difference Marching toward a different future George WeigelJanuary 19, 20224 min read 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. ChristmasCommentaryFeatureThe Catholic Difference The sacred earthiness of Christmas George WeigelDecember 24, 20214 min read “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. CommentaryThe Catholic Difference On not buying into the mythology of “prestige” universities George WeigelOctober 14, 20214 min read 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. CommentaryFeatureSchoolsThe Catholic Difference A bold Catholic investment in inner city education George WeigelSeptember 16, 20215 min read 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. CommentaryFeatureThe Catholic Difference Moral courage and the many cultures of death George WeigelAugust 4, 20214 min read 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. Baltimore BasilicaCommentaryThe Catholic Difference The oldest cathedral and the newest challenge George WeigelJune 2, 20215 min read 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 CommentaryEasterThe Catholic Difference The Easter explosion George WeigelMarch 31, 20214 min read What happened on Easter Sunday was the most explosive experience in human history, shattering all previous expectations of human destiny. CommentaryThe Catholic Difference The world episcopate and the German apostasy George WeigelMarch 18, 20215 min read 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” CommentaryObituariesThe Catholic Difference 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. CommentaryThe Catholic Difference 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. 1 2 3 Next
