George Weigel

To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II

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The Vatican’s China Deal Unravels Further

The latest self-inflicted blow to the Vatican’s China policy came in mid-July, when the Holy See announced that Pope Francis had “recognized” Bishop Joseph Shen Bin as Bishop of Shanghai—despite

Just War, Just Peace, and Ukraine

Carl von Clausewitz, the nineteenth-century Prussian military theorist whose masterpiece, On War, is still studied today, is not typically regarded as an intellectual resource for moral philosophers and moral theologians. That’s

The Vatican as Peacemaker in Ukraine?

A few days after Cardinal Matteo Zuppi’s appointment as head of a Vatican “peace mission” to “help ease tensions in the conflict in Ukraine” (as Vatican News put it), a startling picture

What Ukraine Means

On February 24, 2022, something considered so unlikely in the twenty-first century as to be almost unimaginable happened: A large ­European state mounted a full-scale, full-­spectrum invasion of another large

Pacem In Terris after 60 Years

On April 11, 1963, John XXIII issued the encyclical Pacem in Terris, a powerful call for a world in which there were neither victims nor executioners that cemented the pontiff’s reputation

Disconcerting quotations from Bishop Heiner Wilmer

Shortly before Christmas 2022, it seemed likely that Dr. Heiner Wilmer, SCJ, bishop of Hildesheim and a prominent proponent of the German “Synodal Way,” would be named prefect of the Dicastery for

Churchmen of the Year

hen they were working together some years ago at the Ukrainian Catholic University—the only Catholic institution of higher learning in the former Soviet space—Father Borys Gudziak and Father Sviatoslav Shevchuk

Genocide in Ukraine?

How does the Russian war in Ukraine exemplify Professor Snyder’s “markers” of genocidal intention and action?