Papal Environmentalism: Pro-Life and Pro-Marriage By George Weigel Posted: Wednesday, February 3, 2010
According to Pope Benedict XVI, a consistent Catholic environmentalism must include the defense of life from conception until natural death and the defense of marriage as the stable union of a man and a woman.
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Lord, Please Don’t Hear This Prayer – Yet Again By George Weigel Posted: Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Formulaic Prayers of the Faithful used in many Catholic parishes seem to assume that the world of politics is, somehow, the real world: after a brief intercessory nod to the pope, the bishops, or both, we're immediately invited to pray for sundry social and political causes, never identified as such but wrapped in the gauziness of Feel Good Prayer.
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Epiphany, History, and Us By George Weigel Posted: Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The manifestation of the child Jesus to the gentile Magi at the Epiphany celebrates the coming of the Incarnate Word into human history. And if that stupendous event is, in truth, the pivot on which the entire human story turns, then the Solemnity of the Epiphany is, with Easter, one of the two great pivotal moments of the Church's year of grace.
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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.
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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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