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A bold Catholic investment in inner city education
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.
Moral courage and the many cultures of death
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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.
The oldest cathedral and the newest challenge
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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
The Easter explosion
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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.
The world episcopate and the German apostasy
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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”
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, 20204 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.
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