GREAT PLACES: The Shrine at Fifty By George Weigel Posted: Wednesday, January 6, 2010
The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, is one of Catholicism's Great Places: a catechism in stone, mosaic, and glass.
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Books for Christmas By George Weigel Posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
They're not all new, the books that follow, but they're all well worth reading, and giving.
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Willful Blindness and the Ft. Hood Massacre By George Weigel Posted: Wednesday, December 9, 2009
The Fort Hood killings should remind us of two things: that America's security remains threatened by our government's institutional refusal to take the religious roots of jihadism seriously; and that, as Pope Benedict XVI has pointed out, the way to new and potentially more fruitful Christian-Islamic dialogue begins by insisting than any such conversation focus on the hard questions -- religious freedom as a fundamental human right, and the separation of religious and political authority in a just state.
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Natural law = Bigotry? Please. By George Weigel Posted: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 The Washington Post's recent attack on a politician's use of natural law language -- language used by Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Pope John Paul II alike -- represents a crude attempt to drive classical moral understandings out of the public square by smearing their advocates as morally coarse anti-social misfits.
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The Vatican and the Lefebvrists: Not a Negotiation By George Weigel Posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
The conversations between Rome and Society of St. Pius X leaders are not negotiations, for there is nothing to be negotiated; nor is this a dialogue between equal partners. Rather, the conversations now underway are an act of pastoral charity by the Pope, who is quite clear about the settled doctrine of the Church and who wishes to invite all, including members of the SSPX, to adhere to that doctrine.
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Saint Jeanne Jugan By George Weigel Posted: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
A culture of filial impiety casts into sharp relief the October canonization of Jeanne Jugan, foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor.
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Norwegian Sanctimony, Global Folly By George Weigel Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
President Barack Obama has a golden opportunity to do something about this dangerous and willful Euro-naivete when he accepts the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in December.
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Another Black Legend, Down the Chute By George Weigel Posted: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Recent scholarship on the history of Church-State relations in Europe should remind us that the establishment of religious freedom had more to do with the ethical limits of government than with a public segregation of faith and reason. A fact that bears repeating in today's secularized society.
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