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Poland after John Paul II
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, October 10, 2007
A new generation of Polish political leaders, formed in the social doctrine of John Paul II, is rising. These men and women know, now, what doesn't work; they have learned the arts of democratic persuasion; they have figured out how to get things done through extensive experience in local government, business, education and public service.  [Read More]
The Holy See and the U.N.
By George Weigel
Posted: Thursday, October 4, 2007
In its July 21 issue The Economist suggested that, "instead of claiming to practice a form of inter-governmental diplomacy," the Holy See ought to "renounce its special diplomatic status and call itself what it is -- the biggest non-governmental organization in the world."  [Read More]
Please Pass the Ontology
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Decades of faux-catechesis, in which the only "indelible marks" to be found in religious education classrooms were made by magic markers on felt banners, have left us severely weakened in our self-understanding, such that too many Catholics imagine their Christianity to be the religious variant of their membership in other voluntary organizations.  [Read More]
Cardinal Lustiger, R.I.P.
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, September 19, 2007
In the early 1950s, two young men whose names would become familiar throughout the world attended the same political science lectures at the Sorbonne. One was the son of Polish-Jewish parents; the other came from Cambodia. One had lost his mother in Hitler's Holocaust; the other would ignite a holocaust.  [Read More]
What We Can't Not Know, Six Years After 9/11
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Six years after 9/11, there are certain things we can't not know. We may wish these things weren't true. We can try to ignore them. But safe passage through a moment in history fraught with both danger and possibility requires us to see things as they are.   [Read More]
On the Tenth Anniversary of a Breakdown
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Diana's revelations of Life Among the Windsors didn't destroy the monarchy in her lifetime. But they helped create a media climate that blasted the public reputation of her ex-husband into smithereens, with consequences that can't be foreseen.  [Read More]
The Ripken Ethic
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Cal Ripken's induction into the Hall of Fame last month -- along with Tony Gwynn, the San Diego Padres' hitting machine -- was a cleansing moment in baseball's ongoing season of shame. Seeing Ripken and Gwynn, two regular guys, enter the Cooperstown aristocracy on their merits, period, was a happy reminder of better days.   [Read More]
A Pontifical Conciliar Embarrassment
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, August 22, 2007
"Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road," is a satirist's delight, as it veers from the obvious ("...traffic has increased...") to psychobabble ("When driving a car some people start up the engine to join a race, in order to escape from the troubling pace of everyday life.").  [Read More]
Chairman Gioia Makes NEA Work
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Dana Gioia, current National Endowment of the Arts chairman, knows that ours is a sacramental world, in which the extraordinary lies just on the far side of the ordinary. And he knows that great art, in its many forms, helps up through that permeable border and into the realm of transcendent truth -- and love.  [Read More]
Lord, Please Don't Hear this Prayer: A Reprise
By George Weigel
Posted: Thursday, August 9, 2007
A while back, I noted with a touch of asperity that the "Prayer of the Faithful" too frequently deteriorates into serial sermonettes, an American Church innovation without foundation in the Church's liturgical tradition.   [Read More]
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Weigel Featured on "In Depth"

On Sunday, June 1, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel was featured on C-SPAN2/Book TV's program "In Depth."

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Religion and the Media
Michael Cromartie
Faith Angle Conference -- May 2008

EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in May at the semi-annual Faith Angle Conference sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and held in Key West, Florida. Transcripts of the informative talks are now available online.


American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues -- D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, describes eight fallacies or misconceptions he held as he began his book.

Religious Voters in the 2008 Election: What It Means for Democrats, Republicans -- William A. Galston, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and an assistant for domestic policy in the Clinton administration, discusses the importance of the Catholic vote in 2008.

How Our Brains are Wired for Belief -- What does brain science add to age-old debates about the existence of God and the value of religion? Can political parties and religious groups use scientific insights to influence the beliefs of others? Dr. Andrew Newberg and Mr. David Brooks raise these questions and share their insights with journalists.