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The Pope We All Need:
The Papacy and the Crisis of the West
The 20th Annual Simon Lecture
St. John Paul II: A Centenary Reflection
This essay is an adaption of Mr. Weigel’s nineteenth annual William E. Simon Lecture, delivered on March 10 in Washington, D.C., and draws on material from his Foreword to Teachings
Saint John Paul II: A Centenary Reflection on a Life of Consequence
The 19th Annual Simon Lecture
This Catholic Moment: Today’s Crisis in Historical Context
The 18th Annual Simon Lecture
Democracy and Its Discontents
This essay is adapted from George Weigel’s 17th William E. Simon Lecture, delivered in Washington on March 6, 2018. Click here to listen to an audio recording of the lecture.
Health Care Needs a Soul
The following is the prepared text of EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel’s commencement address at the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, delivered on May 22,
2015 Simon Lecture: Lessons in Statecraft
This article is adapted from the fourteenth annual William E. Simon Lecture, delivered on February 4, 2015. When the Catholic Church celebrated the canonizations of John Paul II and Pope John
The Great War Revisited
This article is adapted from the thirteenth annual William E. Simon Lecture, delivered on February 6, 2014. In 1936, the British writer Rebecca West stood on the balcony of Sarajevo’s
Ukrainian Catholic University Commencement Address
Bishop Borys Gudziak; Father Mykhola Fredyna; Members of the Ukrainian Catholic University Senate; Vice-Rectors and Deans of the Ukrainian Catholic University; faculty and students of the Ukrainian Catholic University academic
Reality and Public Policy
This essay is adapted from the 12th William E. Simon Lecture, delivered in Washington D.C. on February 5, 2013. The glossary of inadmissible words in 21st-century American society has shrunk
The Handwriting on the Wall
A version of this essay was delivered as the 11th Annual William E. Simon Lecture in Washington on February 7, 2012. In recent years, roiled as they have been by
George Weigel and John Allen, Jr. at the November 2010 Faith Angle Forum
The Faith Angle Forum is a semi-annual conference which brings together a select group of 20 nationally respected journalists with 3-5 distinguished scholars on areas of religion, politics & public life.