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Marching toward a different future
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.
The sacred earthiness of Christmas
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.
On not buying into the mythology of “prestige” universities
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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.
A bold Catholic investment in inner city education
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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
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
The Easter explosion
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.
The world episcopate and the German apostasy
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”
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
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.
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