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Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, George Weigel is a Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals. He holds EPPC’s William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies.
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George Weigel Discusses German Controversy and Vatican Letter to USCCB on EWTN
May 13, 2021
On May 13, 2021, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel appeared on EWTN’s “The World Over” with Raymond Arroyo to discuss the controversy over same-sex blessings in the Catholic Church in Germany, and the Vatican’s new letter to the US Bishops regarding the treatment of Holy Communion and pro-abortion Catholic politicians. He appeared alongside Cardinal Gerhard Muller, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican.
George Weigel on Sino-Vatican Deal
April 7, 2021
On April 7, 2021, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel discussed current Vatican policy toward the People’s Republic of China with Chelsea Michta of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a Washington-based research institute and museum.
George Weigel Discusses the Golden Age of Catholic Campus Ministry on CCMA’s CampusMIN Podcast
September 22, 2020
In this edition of the CampusMIN Cast, Executive Director Michael St. Pierre interviewed scholar and intellectual George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and author of The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission.
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Thank You, Your Majesty
Americans have many reasons to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II, one of the few truly noble figures on the contemporary world stage. We were deeply touched by her
Evangelization: What and When?
At the “information meeting” of the College of Cardinals this past August 29–30, there was considerable agreement that evangelization is Catholicism’s prime imperative for the twenty-first century—a consensus understandably gratifying
Finding the Bishops We Need
There was considerable excitement in some quarters this summer when Pope Francis appointed three women as members of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Bishops, which makes recommendations to the pope for
On the Folly of Ignoring Dictators
Earlier this year, I had the honor and pleasure of being introduced to Hatfield House, ancestral home of the marquesses of Salisbury, by the seventh marquess, Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil,
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Thank You, Your Majesty
Americans have many reasons to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II, one of the few truly noble figures on the contemporary world stage. We were deeply touched by her
The Weakness of Tyranny
Christians in the Middle East
Patriarch Kirill and Mr. Putin
Freedom Is Never Free
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Evangelization: What and When?
At the “information meeting” of the College of Cardinals this past August 29–30, there was considerable agreement that evangelization is Catholicism’s prime imperative for the
The “Historic” Amazonian Synod, Revisited
The Vatican and the Worlds of this World
High-Octane Catholicism
The “Magnificat” Phenomenon
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Thank You, Your Majesty
Americans have many reasons to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II, one of the few truly noble figures on the contemporary world stage. We were deeply touched by her
Europe’s Religious Future?
Light From the East
The Russian Path Not Taken