George Weigel on the Papal Visit to the United States
By George Weigel
Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2008
The Church best attracts "customers" by being itself, not by trying to be something else. All over the world, it's the religious communities which have watered down their doctrinal and moral identity that are dying, while those who have maintained visible doctrinal and moral boundaries are growing. That should tell us something about "marketing."  [Read More]

Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church in America
By George Weigel
Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008
Pope Benedict, like Pope John Paul II, is regarded as a moral reference point by many Americans, so his visit will touch people far beyond the Catholic community. What he says to the world about moral reason from the rostrum of the U.N. will be of importance globally.  [Read More]

George Weigel and the Pope
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008
I think America as a whole expects to meet a wide religious and moral leader, who shares the historic American commitment to promote and defend religious freedom around the world. I think the Church in the United States, which is the most vital and vibrant local church in the developed world, is expecting words of encouragement from its chief shepherd.   [Read More]

Rewriting History by Law is Stalinist
George Weigel on current politics in Spain.
By George Weigel
Posted: Monday, January 14, 2008
The institutional separation of church and state -- which is good for the Catholic Church -- cannot mean the separation of religious and moral conviction from public life. It is profoundly undemocratic to tell people of faith that they can’t bring the deepest sources of their moral convictions -- religious sources -- into public life.  [Read More]

Interview with CQ Homeland Security
Santorum Sees a 'Gathering Storm' That the West Must Confront
Posted: Friday, December 14, 2007
In a telephone interview with CQ Homeland Security, Rick Santorum talks about Iran, Islam, the new National Intelligence Estimate, and why Europe is the way it is.  [Read More]

INTERVIEW: Staying the Course
By Sam Stein
Posted: Sunday, July 8, 2007
Former GOP senator Rick Santorum believes his staunch defense of the Iraq War helped lead to his defeat. But he still believes U.S. troops need to continue the fight.  [Read More]

My Conversation with Rick Santorum
By Rick Santorum, Rush Limbaugh
Posted: Tuesday, May 1, 2007
I made the decision that I couldn't walk away from the public policy arena in one particular area: the war. It was very clear to me from the November election that, in my opinion, the American public had gotten the wrong message, and that we had failed them. So after the election I dedicated myself to see if I could do some things in the private sector to better communicate to the American public the nature and gravity of the threat we face.  [Read More]

On Pope Benedict XVI
God's Choice
By George Weigel
Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2007
The judgments of Cardial Ratzinger as "conservative" and "cold" were media stereotypes; everyone who knew him knew them as such, and now the world -- or the world that comes to the General Audiences -- knows them to be cartoons, too. People come to the General Audience to be fed, spiritually and intellectually, by one of Christianity's master-teachers.  [Read More]

On the Record: Rick Santorum
On Islamofascism, Iraq, pro-life Democrats, and other issues
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Monday, October 30, 2006
I believe this war against Islamic fascism will only be successful with the triumph of modern Islam. If Islam does not engage in this struggle for its own religion, then this will be an intractable problem for a long, long time. And so I would suggest that it's important for us to support and foster modern Islam to be successful in this struggle against radical Islam. One of the ways to do that is to create a foundation for modern Islam to flourish.  [Read More]

Europe, America, and Politics Without God
By George Weigel
Posted: Thursday, October 27, 2005
In an interview with Paul Belien from The Brussels Journal, George Weigel discusses how secularization in Western Europe has transformed from a sociological datum to an ideology that is killing Europe. The discussion touches on the implications for the future of politics in a secularized Europe and America, the difference between "Red" and "Blue" America, Christians in the culture war, and demographic suicide.  [Read More]