Tag: George Weigel
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...
George Weigel: Ode to courageous Catholics
There are many exemplars of the cardinal virtue of courage in the Catholic Church today
George Weigel: Papal states had to go
The sesquicentennial of the end of the Papal States is a moment to ponder the workings of divine providence in history.
George Weigel: A new Sunday better normal
In his 2003 encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia (The Church from the Eucharist), Pope St John Paul II invited Catholics to regain a sense of...
George Weigel: A crisis is also an opportunity
Thinking out loud about a return to “Sunday normal,” a veteran parish priest recently told me that he thought it would take one year...
George Weigel: Books for a time of Quarantine
I expect many have found themselves resorting to the page and the lamp more often; may that literary trend continue long after our public health circumstances change.
George Weigel: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission
The next pope needs, and deserves, the prayerful support of the entire Catholic world
George Weigel: Short memories on key synods
Given that he was one of the principal planners and prominent leaders of last October’s special Synod on Amazonia, Cardinal Claudio Hummes OFM, is...
New integralists: uninformed politics that misrepresents the Church
such fiascos are important cautionary tales for any Catholic thinker who imagines that the moral and cultural crisis of the West is going to be resolved by the Catholic Church allying itself with state power
Xavier Rynne II: Letters from the Synod for the Amazon Vol...
“INCULTURATION” AND THE CULTURE THAT IS THE CHURCH
by George Weigel
“Inculturation” has been a buzzword throughout the Catholic world – and especially the developing Catholic...
