After Notre Dame
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Where do things stand, two months after the University of Notre Dame defied the bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend and some eighty of his fellow-bishops by awarding an honorary doctorate of laws to the university's 2009 commencement speaker, the President of the United States?  [Read More]

After Twenty Years: A Jesuit Self-Critique
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, March 6, 2002
Twenty years ago, Pope John Paul II took the unprecedented step of appointing a “personal delegate” to govern the Society of Jesus. It was an attempt at papal shock therapy, aimed at getting the Church’s largest and most prestigious religious order of men to reflect critically on the path they had taken since the Second Vatican Council. Ever since the Jesuits’ normal governance was re-established in 1983, defenders and critics of the Pope’s intervention have both wondered just how successful the shock therapy had been.  [Read More]

After 'United for Religious Freedom'
By George Weigel
Posted: Monday, March 19, 2012
Building a robustly evangelical Catholicism means speaking truth to power, which is precisely what the USCCB Administrative Committee did in "United for Religious Freedom" -- and precisely what the bishops' conference will continue to do as this drama unfolds.  [Read More]

Against the Grain
Christianity and Democracy, War and Peace
By George Weigel
Posted: Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Cutting against the grain of conventional wisdom, New York Times bestseller, George Weigel, offers a compelling look at the ways in which Catholic social teaching sheds light on the challenges of peace, the problem of pluralism, the quest for human rights, and the defense of liberty.  [Read More]

Aggie Catholic Renaissance
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, February 9, 2011
One university chaplaincy is setting a new national standard for Catholic campus ministry, but it may not be on the campus you'd expect.  [Read More]

The Alito Apologies
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, March 1, 2006
With Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., safely and, I trust, happily, seated on the United States Supreme Court, apologies are in order -- as they frequently are after these judicial confirmation brawls.   [Read More]

Allam & Allah
A war of ideas.
By George Weigel
Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Magdi Allam has courageously defended the religious freedom of all while sharply criticizing those currents of thought in Islam which would deny the right of religious conversion to Muslims. Now he fights the war of ideas from a different foxhole, so to speak.  [Read More]

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 do a little, and one-third do nothing. That can, and should, change, even in economically difficult times.  [Read More]

American Ideals Can Be Lost If They Aren't Taught
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Friday, June 20, 2008
Critics often deride American-identity worries as mere nativism or naiveté. But a new report from the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation suggests that our concerns are justified. And our anxiety over losing outward markers of our national identity may be linked to our increasingly tenuous grasp of the ideals that define us as Americans.  [Read More]

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 in bad, but the college's current priests-to-be may well face some of the greatest challenges yet.  [Read More]