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George Weigel: Please explain, Patriarch Kirill

In the early 1990s, I met Kirill, now Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia’, when the man christened Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev was chief ecumenical officer of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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Liquid Catholicism and a Synodal Way

Twenty years ago, during the Long Lent of 2002, I began using the term “Catholic Lite” to describe a project that detached the Church...

George Weigel: Russian amnesia enables iron rule

There have been vast improvements in the techniques and technology of filmmaking since 1961, when Stanley Kramer made Judgment at Nuremberg.

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George Weigel: A lesson in basic journalism

When I began working with some regularity in Rome thirty years ago, my elders and betters taught me that no one paid much attention to the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.

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George Weigel: Weird political theory is nonsense on stilts

Given everything else going on these days, it may seem strange that a 129-year-old encyclical by Pope Leo XIII, founding father of modern Catholic...

George Weigel: A patriot first, and a hero

CRACOW. Thanks to the pandemic, it’s been two years since I was last in Cracow, where for three decades I’ve done extensive research and...

George Weigel: A voting record you never want

A voting record you never want At 1 pm EDT on 18 June, it was announced that three-quarters of the US bishops had voted to...

George Weigel: Remembering Poland’s heroes

It was a two-week whirlwind that changed my life forever, that first visit of mine to Poland in June 1991. Looking back on it,...

George Weigel: A tepid response, with regrettable echoes

On May 7, Cardinal Luis Ladaria, SJ, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, sent a letter to Archbishop José Gomez,...

George Weigel: All changes in an explosion of light

Let me adapt to recent circumstances a thought-experiment theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar proposed decades ago: Imagine that a friend contracts a severe case of...

George Weigel: Where the Church is in danger of schism

A forgotten role of bishops worldwide is now essential As the names Ambrose, Augustine, Athanasius, and John Chrysostom suggest, the middle centuries of the first...

George Weigel: Never having to say you’re sorry?

According to the movie Love Story, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” Typical Hollywood fluff, you might say. Yet the best answer...
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