George Weigel
Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies
George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals. He holds EPPC’s William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies.
George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals. He holds EPPC’s William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies.
From 1989 through June 1996, Mr. Weigel was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he led a wide-ranging, ecumenical and inter-religious program of research and publication on foreign and domestic policy issues.
Mr. Weigel is perhaps best known for his widely translated and internationally acclaimed two-volume biography of Pope St. John Paul II: the New York Times bestseller, Witness to Hope (1999), and its sequel, The End and the Beginning (2010). In 2017, Weigel published a memoir of the experiences that led to his work as a papal biographer: Lessons in Hope — My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II.
George Weigel is the author or editor of more than thirty other books, many of which have been translated into other languages. Among the most recent are Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church (2013); Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches (2013); Letters to a Young Catholic (2015); The Fragility of Order: Catholic Reflections on Turbulent Times (2018); The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission (2020);Not Forgotten: Elegies for, and Reminiscences of, a Diverse Cast of Characters, Most of Them Admirable (2021); and To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II (2022). His essays, op-ed columns, and reviews appear regularly in major opinion journals and newspapers across the United States. A frequent guest on television and radio, he is also Senior Vatican Analyst for NBC News. His weekly column, “The Catholic Difference,” is syndicated to eighty-five newspapers and magazines in seven countries.
Mr. Weigel received a B.A. from St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore and an M.A. from the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto. He is the recipient of nineteen honorary doctorates in fields including divinity, philosophy, law, and social science, and has been awarded the Papal Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, Poland’s Gloria Artis Gold Medal, and Lithuania’s Diplomacy Star.
Those Who Rule Us
George Weigel
David Ignatius, the assistant managing editor of the Washington Post, recently tried to answer a question about the Clinton administration…
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Syndicated Column / April 1, 1994
The Old War, Revisited
George Weigel
As for David Ignatius’s second point, one can surely sympathize with the difficulties of policy-making in the strange new post-Cold…
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Syndicated Column / April 1, 1994
Havel’s Challenge
George Weigel
The thrashings in the policy community and the rise of a new isolationism notwithstanding, some people, at least, still think…
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Syndicated Column / April 1, 1994
The Truth of the World
George Weigel
During the hardest days of the anti-Communist human-rights resistance, a lot of thought was given to the relationship between truth…
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Syndicated Column / April 1, 1994
Calibrating Our Response
George Weigel
Some of what Havel had to say in his Foreign Affairs article struck me as a bit overwrought. His forebodings…
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Syndicated Column / April 1, 1994
Taking Our Medicine
George Weigel
All that being said, however, President Havel is surely right that “the headaches are never over,” and that the present…
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Syndicated Column / April 1, 1994
Endnotes
George Weigel
1. In this, the new Best and Brightest were linear descendants of the old Best and Brightest, and particularly of…
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Syndicated Column / April 1, 1994
Christian Conviction and Democratic Etiquette
George Weigel
According to a bit of street wisdom that has worked its way into the national vocabulary, “You got to walk…
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First Things / March 1, 1994
For Peace in Europe
George Weigel
The holidays are over. No, not just the seasonal celebrations of Hanukkah, Christmas, and the new year, but the vacation…
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Syndicated Column / February 1, 1994