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 Lite."  [Read More]

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 courage.  [Read More]

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 liturgical life of our soldiers in the face of a shortage of Catholic Military Chaplains.  [Read More]

Trouble For the Church, and Democracy, In Ukraine
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, June 2, 2010
The new, pro-Kremlin government of Ukraine is undoing the gains of the Orange Revolution and driving the country closer to its former master to the east, with very grave consequences for ecumenism, religious freedom, and democracy itself.  [Read More]

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.  [Read More]

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.  [Read More]

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 Young University -- sheds some light on why.  [Read More]

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. While Kennedy may have overcome anti-Catholic prejudice, the deeply flawed way in which he did so prepared the ground for schizophrenic politicians who bracket their moral convictions when they fear being charged by the new secularist bigots with the "imposition" of "sectarian" convictions.  [Read More]

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 Maciel's many perfidies is utterly implausible.  [Read More]

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.  [Read More]