A man for strengthening othersGeorge Weigel
When the choirs of angels led Father Paul Mankowski, SJ, into the Father's house on September 3, I hope the seraphic choirmaster chose music appropriate to the occasion. Had I been asked, I would have ...
Religious freedom: bleached, blanched, and rinsed out George Weigel
Father Richard John Neuhaus put two big ideas into play in American public life. The first was that the pro-life movement (of which Neuhaus was an intellectual leader) was the natural heir to the moral ...
Christ at the center of the CouncilGeorge Weigel
Conversations with Father Robert Imbelli have been a great blessing in recent years. I have rarely met a more even-tempered and gracious man: a true churchman who, in retirement after years of teaching ...
Why we are where we are George Weigel
By early March 1865, more than a million Americans had killed or wounded each other in civil war; the killing, wounding, and maiming continued for another month or so. Yet, amidst that unprecedented carnage, ...
Rediscovering eucharistic amazementGeorge Weigel
In his 2003 encyclical, "Ecclesia de Eucharistia" (The Church from the Eucharist), Pope St. John Paul II invited Catholics to regain a sense of "eucharistic amazement." Being "amazed" by the Eucharist ...
Rediscovering the reality of the Eucharist George Weigel
Thinking out loud about a return to "Sunday normal," a veteran pastor recently told me that he thought it would take one year for each month of lockdown/quarantine/ shelter-at-home for Mass attendance ...
AM[D]GGeorge Weigel
Last November 11, on the centenary of its relocation to a 93-acre campus in suburban Washington, D.C., Georgetown Preparatory School announced a $60 million capital campaign. In his message for the opening ...
The next pope and the crisis of the West George Weigel
In February 1968, Cardinal Karol Wojtyla wrote Father Henri de Lubac, SJ, about a project in which the cardinal was engaged: a philosophical explanation of the uniqueness and nobility of the human person. ...
