Home > Publications > The Catholic Difference

Home

Conferences & Events

Publications

Blog Posting

Books

Event Transcripts

Browse by:

- Author

- Title

- Type

- Date

> >

The Catholic Difference

[Hide Abstracts]

Biblical Illiteracy and Bible Babel
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, May 11, 2012
One of the disappointments of the post-Vatican II period has been the glacial pace of the growth in Catholic biblical literacy the Council hoped to inspire. [Read More]

Pugin at 200
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, May 4, 2012
2012 is the bicentenary of Augustine Welby Northmore Pugin, pioneer of the Gothic Revival style and one of the aesthetic geniuses of the 19th century. [Read More]

Rose DeLauro, CNS, and the Disoriented Catholic Left
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Many Catholics on the port side of both American politics and the Church, have long thought that they alone hold the high ground at the intersection of Catholic social teaching and public policy. Those days are over. [Read More]

Philip II, China, and the Great Catholic What-If
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, April 20, 2012
What if the seventeenth century attempts to evangelize China had succeeded and China had subsequently developed a vibrant form of Catholicism that blended the best of European and Chinese talents and personalities? [Read More]

Jimmy Carter, Biblical Scholar and Theologian
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, April 13, 2012
Jimmy Carter would do us all a great favor if he would lay off theology and exegesis. Like foreign policy, these are disciplines manifestly beyond his capabilities. [Read More]

Easter Changes Everything
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, April 6, 2012
Only a mature, paschal faith -- an Easter faith -- can perceive who Jesus is, understand what Jesus taught, and grasp what Jesus has accomplished by his obedience to the Father. [Read More]

Cardinal Dolan and the New Evangelization
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, March 23, 2012
Cardinal Dolan's recent address to the college of cardinals was an extended and moving reminder that everyone in the Church must ask for the grace and strength to accept that invitation to Galilee: to be the witnesses to Christ that all of us were baptized to be. [Read More]

Religious freedom: It�s not just Pakistan and China
By George Weigel
Posted: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Religious freedom is under assault in these United States. The assault is both cultural and legal. It is shameful that the present administration underwrites the former while being a major actor in the latter. [Read More]

God Save the Queen
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, March 9, 2012
On February 6, Queen Elizabeth II marked her diamond jubilee, an achievement that Great Britain will celebrate throughout 2012. On need not be a monarchist to join in saluting the Queen, who embodies several qualities that are in short supply among twenty-first century public figures. [Read More]

The Catholic Diaspora and the Tragedy of Liberal Catholicism
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, March 2, 2012
That liberal Catholics have given political cover to a gross infringement on religious freedom by a federal government represents a tragic betrayal of the best in the liberal Catholic heritage in the U.S., even as it illustrates the utter incoherence into which post-conciliar liberal Catholicism in America has tragically fallen. [Read More]

Total Records: 322

[

Next ]

"The Ethics and Public Policy Center is a wonderful resource for creative and savvy policy proposals that are faithful to America's founding principles. I regularly draw on the broad-ranging expertise of EPPC scholars."

-- conservative Congressman Paul Ryan, architect of the highly praised Roadmap for entitlement reform

Please support EPPC now.

Blogging on the Courts

EPPC President Edward Whelan, the director of the program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture, is a leading contributor to Bench Memos, National Review Online's award-winning blog on judicial nominations and constitutional law. You can read a list of all of his postings here.

Paul Mirengoff of the influential Power Line blog has said, "Blogs like NRO’s Bench Memos … enable legal super-stars like Ed Whelan to shoot down bad arguments against nominees within hours."

ObamaCareWatch.org

The 2012 election will provide a historic opportunity to repeal the massive folly of ObamaCare and to adopt sensible market-based health-care reforms that reward efficiency and innovation. To pave the way for repeal, EPPC health-care expert Jim Capretta is directing a new website, ObamaCareWatch.org, that is tracking news about Obamacare's implementation from around the country and that will be a repository of essential facts, statistics, and analysis. Read Jim's introductory essay.