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Light From the East
By George Weigel
Posted: Tuesday, May 6, 2008
The Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in L'viv is led by a Ukrainian-American, Father Borys Gudziak, who brings to his work a Harvard doctorate in church history, indefatigable energy, organizational skill and spiritual vision. If I had to name the 50 Catholics whose present work is most important for the future of the world Church, Father Gudziak's name would easily make the cut. What he has built in a decade in L'viv, starting from scratch, is breathtaking.  [Read More]
A Pope of Historic Vision
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Benedict XVI thinks in centuries. His courageous exercise in truth-telling at Regensburg has already begun to reshape the debate within Islam and the dialogue between Islam and "the rest." That is no mean accomplishment.   [Read More]
Remembering Bill Buckley
By George Weigel
Posted: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Who were the most publicly influential American Catholics of the twentieth century? If we mean a Catholic whose ideas changed the way Americans think, who reshaped our politics and our public policy, and whose influence seems likely to endure, then William F. Buckley, Jr., who died February 27, must be given his due.  [Read More]
Easter vs. Irony
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Perhaps the trouble so many highly educated people have in accepting the gift of faith today is that their spiritual faculties have been dulled by the irony in which modern and post-modern high culture abounds. Very little today is what it once was thought to be: what we once regarded as good, we are now taught was base. Innocence is ignorance; only the ironic sensibility befits a well-educated modern.  [Read More]
Sandboxes and Seminar Rooms
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Socrates "disoriented" young people with all of those probing questions in order to get them to grasp the truth of things. The basic assumption of the Harvard faculty report is that there is no truth-of-things; it's all "appearances," all the way down.  [Read More]
Lourdes and the Modern World
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, February 22, 2008
In mid-19th century Europe, Lourdes, a small town in the French Pyrenees, was about as backwater as backwater gets. Today, as for the past century and a half, Lourdes is one of the world's great pilgrimage sites, a place of decency, fellowship and spiritual healing where inexplicable physical cures have also taken place.  [Read More]
Archbishop Marini on the Liturgy Wars
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Those seeking insight into the ideas that shaped the Missal of Paul VI, the revised breviary, and other facets of the Church's post-Vatican II liturgy will have to look elsewhere than A Challenging Reform by Archbishop Piero Marini, Master of Pontifical Liturgical Ceremonies from 1987 until 2007 (Liturgical Press).  [Read More]
Enjoying the Big Questions
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
The antidote  to the brain numbness that descends on any thoughtful person at this point in an election cycle is Leszek Kolakowski's new book, Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? 23 Questions from Great Philosophers (Basic Books). Tired of mindless sound-bites? Disgusted with political demagoguery? Spend a few hours with Kolakowski.  [Read More]
An Islamic Leo XIII?
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, January 16, 2008
A Muslim colleague, Stephen Schwartz of the Center for Islamic Pluralism, recently suggested to me, what Islam really needs is a Leo XIII: a religious leader who, by retrieving and developing forgotten elements of an ancient faith, can bring that faith into a fruitful engagement with the modern world.  [Read More]
Cardinal Kasper on the State of Ecumenism
By George Weigel
Posted: Thursday, January 10, 2008
2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the Chair of Unity Octave, which has evolved into an annual pan-Christian week of prayer running from January 18-25. Prayer, it seems, is what is most required in the early 21st century quest for Christian unity, a quest that reached a peek of euphoria in the mid-1960s and that has suffered many disappointments ever since.   [Read More]
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Religion and the Media
Faith Angle Conference -- Dec. 2007

Michael CromartieEPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in December at the biannual 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.

 Religion and Secularism: The American Experience -- EPPC Senior Fellow Wilfred McClay, a distinguished professor of intellectual history, speaks on the historical relationship between religion and secularism in America and argues for a distinction between two types of secularism.

 The Religion Factor in the 2008 Election -- John Green, author of The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections, analyzes recent surveys and suggests that the line dividing more observant and less observant voters - so pronounced in the 2004 election - may be blurring.

 Religious Literacy: What Every American Should Know -- Stephen Prothero, chair of the Department of Religion at Boston University and the author of Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know -- and Doesn't discusses the issue of religious illiteracy in the United States. 

Liberating the Limerick

God's plan made a hopeful beginning
But man spoiled his chances by sinning
We trust that the story
Will end in God's glory
But at present, the other side's winning
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

In his new book Liberating the Limerick, EPPC Senior Scholar (and founding President) Ernest W. Lefever collects, and organizes by theme, 230 limericks that "reflect facets of truth and virtue wrapped in the garments of irony and caricature." Click here to read more.