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| December |
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| Christmas, Jews, and Christians |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 |
| Christmas, the annual cultural festival that perhaps most starkly distinguishes Christians from our Jewish neighbors and friends, ought to be a religious solemnity that reminds Christians of their |
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| A Christmas Book Sampler |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 |
| Here are a few books you may not have heard much about, but are definitely worth checking out. Each would make a fine gift to someone on your list who likes to think outside the box. |
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| An Archdiocese Spanning the Globe |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 |
| The Archdiocese for the Military Services -- the fifth-largest diocese in the United States -- literally spans the globe with responsibilities in every time-zone and on every continent including |
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| Paint-By-Numbers Journalism |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 |
| Like the man they chose to preside over their conference, the bishops who elected Archbishop Dolan combine a sense of excitement about the Catholic possibility in 21st century America with serious |
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| November |
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| Countercultural Time |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 |
| The Church as a whole ought to make a countercultural statement by the way it orders the rhythms of its life: we need more Holy Days of Obligation, not fewer. |
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| A Tale of Two Europes |
| Looking for Transcendence |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Friday, November 12, 2010 |
| November 9 marked the 21st anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Yet if the open-borders Europe of the Schengen agreement is no longer divided by concrete walls, barbed-wire fences, and sandy |
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| Thoughts at the Alamo |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 |
| A visit to the Alamo provides an occasion for reflection on the role of the Catholic faith in the history of Mexico and the American southwest, and the future prospects of a troubled country and rich |
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| Pat Moynihan: The Great Catholic "What if…?" |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 |
| Remembering Daniel Patrick Moynihan is a source of happiness for his scintillating intellect, sparkling wit, and penetrating insight into some the great issues of the late twentieth century; and of |
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| October |
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| Papal Humor |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 |
| Despite the world's fascination with All Things Papal, there isn't much out there about papal humor. |
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| Newman's Faith |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 |
| Blessed John Cardinal Henry Newman's pre-Catholic journey from evangelicalism to high-church Anglicanism and the Oxford Movement, remains one of the most compelling such tales of modern times -- |
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| Richard Dawkins & Co. = Paisley 2.0? |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, October 6, 2010 |
| The New Atheists, like Richard Dawkins, showed themselves in the run-up to the recent papal visit to the UK to be so perfervid, so over-the-top, in their antipathies as to be dismissed as |
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| September |
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| The Pius Wars, Continued |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
| As Hubert Wolf, professor of Church history at the University of Muenster, demonstrates conclusively in Pope and Devil: The Vatican Archives and the Third Reich (Harvard/Belknap), the charge |
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| A Promise To Pope John Paul II |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 |
| George Weigel's new book, The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II -- The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy, which was published by Doubleday on September 14, is the |
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| August |
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| Britain Can Benefit from Benedict |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 |
| The seemingly endless stories of clerical sexual abuse and the mismanagement of these sins and crimes by Catholic bishops are not the only story to be told about the Church at the end of the first |
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| In Defense of Israel's Legitimacy |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 |
| The "Friends of Israel" initiative is an effort to restore a measure of moral integrity to an international environment that is becoming increasingly toxic because of untruths and rank |
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| An Anniversary of Consequence |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 |
| The pro-life movement's most important legal victory since Roe v. Wade is jeopardized by Obamacare, and by the insouciance of some Catholics about the extension of the Hyde Amendment to |
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| What Gettysburg Means |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 |
| If Gettysburg was the pivot of the Civil War, and if the Civil War changed the country from "the United States are..." to "the United States is...", then the United |
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| In Praise of Father Schall |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, August 4, 2010 |
| Fr. James Schall, SJ, a man of wit and wisdom, is one of the greatest living figures in Catholic higher education today, and an example of the tremendous heights to which an authentically Catholic |
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| July |
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| Getting Beyond Bainton |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 |
| Christians will best engage in the debate about the morally legitimate use of armed force if they liberate themselves intellectually from the simplistic and inaccurate schema that Roland Bainton |
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| Surrounded by Martyrs |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 |
| The 20th century was the greatest century of martyrdom in Christian history. The witness of these martyrs, the memory of which we must be kept bright, can be a rich and edifying source of |
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| Papal Kudos for the Fourth Estate? |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 |
| Pope Benedict XVI's insistence that the "greatest persecution of the Church comes not from her enemies without but arises from sin within the Church," is hardly a ringing endorsement of |
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| Israel: A Normal Country |
| By George Weigel, Jose Maria Aznar, David Trimble, John R. Bolton, Alejandro Toledo, Marcello Pera, Andrew Roberts, Fiamma Nirenstein, Robert F. Agostinelli and Carlos Bustelo |
| Posted: Thursday, July 8, 2010 |
| The Friends of Israel Initiative has come together to encourage men and women of goodwill to reconsider their attitudes toward the Jewish state. It is in our own best interests that an increasingly |
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| June |
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| Deep Catholicism |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 |
| In Criticizing the Critics: Catholic Apologias for Today (Family Publications), Father Aidan Nichols, O.P. makes a compelling case for Catholicism-in-full as an alternative to "Catholic |
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| Courage in Quebec |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 |
| Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the archbishop of Quebec City has recently shown a willingness to confront the increasingly aggressive secularism of the North Atlantic world with reason, conviction, and |
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| Operation Let the Fire Fall |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, June 9, 2010 |
| "Operation Let the Fire Fall" provides quality liturgical music and portable sound systems -- free of charge -- to Catholics serving in the armed forces in an effort to bolster the |
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| May |
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| An Immigration Debate Primer |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 |
| A few common sense considerations, courtesy of Catholic social doctrine, can bring some badly needed sanity to an immigration debate much given to bumper-sticker politics. |
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| Storm Clouds in Ukraine |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 |
| Recent developments in Ukraine bode ill for those who would see Ukraine maintain its autonomy from their neighbor to the east. |
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| When the Mask of Tolerance Slips |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 |
| Every once in a while, the mask of tolerance slips and the contempt in which the Catholic Church and its convictions are held by the ruling classes of 21st century Europe can be seen for what it is. |
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| The Cardinal Among the Latter-Day Saints |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 |
| Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has been a great blessing to the Church in the US. His recent speech -- at of all places, Brigham |
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| What JFK Wrought at Houston |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, May 5, 2010 |
| Since JFK's 1960 address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, that speech has been the model for many Catholic politicians seeking to explain the role of Catholics in public life. |
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| Money, Scandal, and Rome |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 |
| Pope John Paul II was badly deceived by Father Marcial Maciel, as were a great many others around the world. But the notion that Fr. Maciel somehow bought the Pope's silence on the issue of |
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| The Limits of the Papacy |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 |
| There are very real human limits on the exercise of papal power that seem almost impossible for some editors and reporters -- and indeed for some Catholics -- to grasp. |
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| An Open Letter to Hans Küng |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 |
| An open letter in response to dissident theologian Hans Küng's letter of 16 April 2010, which appeared in the Irish Times. |
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| Scandal-Time, Once More |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 |
| Far too often, agendas other than an honest accounting for the sins, failures, and crimes of the past, and the protection of vulnerable young people in the present and future, are at work in the |
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| Almsgiving - All $300 Billion of It |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 |
| The "one-third, one-third, one-third rule" still applies in too many Catholic parishes: one-third of a parish's families carry the bulk of the parish's financial burden, one-third |
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| What Went Wrong |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Monday, April 5, 2010 |
| Don't blame celibacy. To fight the plague of sexual abuse, the church needs to become more Catholic, not less. |
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| March |
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| A Legal Travesty in Poland |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 |
| The judicial punishment of politically incorrect opinion -- as exemplified by a recent Polish court's ruling against a Catholic magazine -- reveals telling similarities to both the worst habits |
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| Scoundrel Time(s) |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| In a pattern exemplifying the dog's behavior in Proverbs 26:11, the sexual abuse story in the global media is almost entirely a Catholic story, in which the Catholic Church is portrayed as the |
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| Spreading the Big Lie |
| By George Weigel, Rev. Jay Scott Newman |
| Posted: Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| Why did the Washington Post choose Palm Sunday to publish an ignorant and malicious piece by Sinead O'Connor on abuse in the Catholic Church? |
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| Advice for Europe – And For Us |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 |
| In order to combat aggressive secularism, the Church in both the United States and Europe must be less diffident, less defensive, and more assertive -- not in the sense of aggression, but of |
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| February |
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| Whining Russians |
| An Olympic microcosm. |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| Everything about the Russian whining over Evgeni Plushenko's second place finish in Vancouver in men's figure skating neatly matches the dominant themes of much of Russian public life since |
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| A Virtual Boyhood |
| By Colleen Carroll Campbell |
| Posted: Monday, February 22, 2010 |
| In an age of media saturation, I worry: How long will my son retain that innocent enthusiasm for the thrills of being a little boy in a wide, wonderful world? How soon will he feel the pressure to |
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| The Lessons of Jean-Marie Lustiger |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 |
| In June 2003, Pope John Paul II published his last notable contribution to the Catholic Church’s reflection on the culture of political modernity, the post-synodal apostolic exhortation |
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| Rediscovering the Sounds of Silence |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 |
| We're surrounded by noise. Stores and restaurants are full of canned music; an NBA or NHL game is an exercise in noise-pain management; there is virtually no public space, outside art museums and |
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| January |
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| Hope in the Ruins of Haiti |
| By Colleen Carroll Campbell |
| Posted: Monday, January 25, 2010 |
| The needs of the Haitian people and our own capacity to address them have reminded us once again that the mystery of suffering is best answered with self-giving love. |
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| Epiphany, History, and Us |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 |
| The manifestation of the child Jesus to the gentile Magi at the Epiphany celebrates the coming of the Incarnate Word into human history. And if that stupendous event is, in truth, the pivot on which |
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| America’s Roman college at 150 |
| By George Weigel |
| Posted: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 |
| The Pontifical North American College in Rome celebrates its 150th anniversary in this, the Year for Priests. Past graduates of the NAC have served the Church in the United States in good times and |
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