Tag: George Weigel

I was not surprised by George Weigel’s continuing criticism of Pope Francis and the coming Synod of Bishops (The Catholic Weekly, 9 July, 2023). I was surprised that his discussion of Vatican II’s central document Lumen Gentium ignored one of its most striking features.

A critical column in CW by George Weigel described the anniversary of the Francis pontificate as 'sombre.' Pope Francis' biographer Austen Ivereigh responds

In the first chapter of Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy quoted an exasperated Congressman, John Steven McGroarty, who wrote an irritating constituent in these neatly acerbic terms: “One of the countless drawbacks of being in Congress is that I am compelled to receive letters from an impertinent jackass ...

The 13th of March ought to have been a happy day in Rome. But the mood in and around Vatican City before, during and...

Why are apologists for the new ultramontanism not more critical of the bludgeoning of a small number of liturgical traditionalists?

Just days before his sudden death, Cardinal Pell went with his friend George Weigel to pay his respects to Benedict XVI. The rest is history.

We Americans have many reasons to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II, one of the few truly noble figures on the contemporary world...

One of the more irritating tropes of this age in which sloganeering has replaced argumentation is the alleged distinction between “wars of choice” and...

Barring a startling lurch to starboard in New York, Kathy Hochul, who as lieutenant governor succeeded the unlamented Andrew Cuomo on his political demise,...

In one of his Blackford Oakes novels, William F. Buckley, Jr. had a character crack a Wagnerian joke along these lines: What is Siegfried?...

On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II had lunch in the papal apartment with Dr Jerome Lejeune, the renowned French pediatrician and geneticist...

CRACOW - Four and a half months after Russia invaded Ukraine on the Orwellian pretext of displacing a “Nazi” regime — a regime that enjoys a democratic legitimacy absent from Russia for two decades — what have we learned about, and from, the Russian way of war? We have learned that the Russian way of war is inept strategically, tactically and logistically: an army using inferior equipment, bereft of competent non-commissioned officers, and replete with ill-trained draftees; an army that relies on brute force to bludgeon its way toward its objectives.