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President Reagan and Pope John Paul II
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, July 3, 2009
They were two of the giant figures of the last half of the twentieth century -- Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II -- and they had many things in common. Both were trained actors whose craft had taught them the power of words to change minds and hearts. Both came to eminence through unconventional routes, and against the grain of a lot of the common wisdom.  [Read More]
Judging Justices, Catholic and Otherwise
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, June 26, 2009
"Empathy" is an admirable quality in a judge in certain legal circumstances -- sentencing, for example -- but not in determining what the law means. No claim to superior "empathy" ought to change that constitutional fact. Indeed, the federal judicial oath itself enjoins a dispassionate commitment to equal justice on all judges.   [Read More]
Let Us Now Praise the Little Professor
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2009
In another summer of baseball's steroid-driven discontent -- A-Rod scandals, Manny's suspension, Clemens's denials, etc., -- it's worth remembering a different era in the pastime, the virtues of which were embodied by the other DiMaggio: Dom, the Little Professor, kid brother of Joltin' Joe, the Yankee Clipper.  [Read More]
June 1979 – The Nine Days of John Paul II
By George Weigel
Posted: Monday, June 15, 2009
During the Nine Days of June 1979, John Paul II gave back to his people their history, their culture, and their identity. In doing so, he gave Poles spiritual tools of resistance that communism could not match. And he did all that by reminding his people that "Poland" began with its 10th century baptism -- with its incorporation into the Christian world.  [Read More]
That All-Too-Fallible Vatican Newspaper
By George Weigel
Posted: Thursday, June 4, 2009
The notion that everything appearing in L'Osservatore Romano is a) vetted by the Secretariat of State and b) reflects the settled views of "the Vatican" (presumably including the Pope) is so transcendentally silly that it is barely worth refuting.  [Read More]
Exiles on the Way Home
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, May 29, 2009
American Babylon is vintage Neuhaus, in several senses of the term. It deepens themes Richard had been exploring since Time Toward Home (1975) and The Naked Public Square (1984), especially the continually vexed question of Church-and-state. It includes perhaps his most developed reflection on the importance of living Judaism for Christianity. It takes up the cudgels in defense of life and sharply critiques the "immortality project" with which some scientists are obsessed.  [Read More]
What "Church" Does Notre Dame belong to?
By George Weigel
Posted: Monday, May 25, 2009
The Obama administration is full of very smart political operators. Reading last November’s electoral entrails, they’ve sensed the possibility of driving a wedge through the Catholic community in America, dividing Catholics from their bishops and thus securing the majority Catholic vote Obama received in 2008.  [Read More]
The Imperative of Fraternal Correction
By George Weigel
Posted: Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Every September, the Congregation for Bishops in Rome hosts a seminar for newly-ordained bishops from around the world; the seminar is widely known, at least sotto voce, as "Baby Bishops' School." I have a modest suggestion for the curriculum: everyone attending the seminar should be given a copy of the classic World War II novel, Twelve O'Clock High!, which is far less a story of B-17s over Europe than a lesson in paternal, masculine leadership.  [Read More]
Mr. Blair's Cafeteria
By George Weigel
Posted: Thursday, May 7, 2009
This past Lent, in the course of an interview with Attitude, a gay magazine, Tony Blair said that Pope Benedict XVI's "entrenched attitude" toward homosexual behavior was less tolerant than that of many ordinary Catholics.   [Read More]
A Christian Nation?
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2009
A few days after the 2008 election, I was walking toward the Largo Argentina on a cool, clear Roman evening, when I noticed a magazine kiosk and wandered over to have a look. Every one of them featured a glowing portrait of Barrack Obama, photographed in side- or quarter-profile and looking up with a calm, secure gaze – not altogether unlike like Jim Caviezel’s Jesus at the end of The Passion of the Christ, on the morning of the Resurrection.    [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 -- December 2008

EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in December 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.

Religion and Race: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective -- Eddie S.Glaude Jr., author of In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, discussed religion and race in America.

A Post-Election Look at Religious Voters in the 2008 Election -- John Green, a senior fellow in religion and American politics at the Pew Forum, discussed how a small change overall in voting behavior among religious groups had a big impact at the ballot box.

America and Islam After Bush  -- Vali Nasr, author of the 2006 book, The Shia Revival, surveyed the geo-political landscape of today's Middle East.