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George Weigel

George Weigel is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. His column is distributed by the Denver Catholic.

Putting Americans in Iron Lungs Again?

The nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services was transactional: RFK 2.0 abandoned his 2024...

Cathedrals and us

The Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in the nation’s capital is a magnificent Neo-Gothic structure, based on 14th-century English models, that...

Russia’s sacrilegious war on Ukraine

Today’s Russian Orthodox leadership is a theological, moral, and pastoral train wreck. U.S. foreign policy can’t fix that. Nonetheless, those responsible for devising U.S....

Manners, methods, and greatness

Browsing Footprints in Time, the memoirs of Winston Churchill’s longtime private secretary, John Colville, I found a tale from eighty years ago with a...

Catholics, Hippocrates, and reforming American medicine

I am the odd man out in a family of medical folk. My maternal grandfather was a physician; his daughter, my mother, was a...

Joe Biden: When The Last Hurrah met Catholic Lite

Four years ago, this column praised the courage of Archbishop José Gómez of Los Angeles, then-president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB),...

From Doubting Thomas to Doubting Peter?

Ralph Fiennes is a remarkable actor. And if he wins an Academy Award for his brilliant performance in Conclave, this section of his masterfully...

Stacked decks, “Conversation in the Spirit,” and the Catholic future

Various cultures — English, Turkish, Chinese — claim to have invented the maxim, “The fish rots from the head down” (a favorite in Your...

Jubilee 2025: New Year’s resolutions and resources

Jubilee 2025 began on Christmas Eve 2024, with the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s in Rome, and will conclude on January...

Jimmy and the Patriarch, at Christmas

The post-Christmas liturgical calendar may seem a bit Scrooge-like, as the child-centered, innocent joy of the Nativity is quickly followed by three feasts of...

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