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.
Peace on (Part of) Earth
George Weigel
The Central American peace plan negotiated in August 1987 by the presidents of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and…
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Syndicated Column / December 1, 1987
Peace on (Another Part of) Earth
George Weigel
The debate over a treaty eliminating medium and short-range (INF) missiles in Europe will surely be another hot item in…
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Syndicated Column / December 1, 1987
Archbishop Stafforad Oim
George Weigel
AMERICAN PURPOSE has not been hesitant to criticize those voices in the American religious community whose approach to “work…
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Syndicated Column / December 1, 1987
Remembering Scoop
George Weigel
What if . . . ? is an endlessly fascinating historical game. What if the Confederacy had won the War…
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Syndicated Column / December 1, 1987
Religious Liberty in Lithuania
George Weigel
On September 15, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, by a vote of 400 to 0, HR 192, a resolution…
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Syndicated Column / December 1, 1987
In Brief
George Weigel
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES, INDEED. The Understatement-of-the-Year Award goes to James Le Moyne of the New York Times, whose analysis of…
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Syndicated Column / December 1, 1987
Sink the U.N.?
George Weigel
Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist of The New Republic, would have been a tough prosecutor had his agile mind…
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Syndicated Column / November 1, 1987
Compound Ignorance
George Weigel
In the spring of 1986, a statistically representative sample of 8,000 American 17-year-olds enrolled in U.S. history courses was surveyed…
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Syndicated Column / November 1, 1987
Decline and Fall
George Weigel
Max Lerner, the syndicated columnist who began his career on the farther reaches of the American Left in the 1930s,…
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Syndicated Column / November 1, 1987
Senator Bradley on the Chautauqua Circuit
George Weigel
At the end of August, Senator Bill Bradley (D-New Jersey) gave a speech to a Chautauqua, New York, conference on…
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Syndicated Column / November 1, 1987