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.
The New Left, the Old Left, and the Peace Movement
George Weigel
The American Peace Movement-it should go without saying-was profoundly shaped by the Vietnam-era New Left. That the New Left was,…
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Syndicated Column / October 1, 1987
On Getting Involved
George Weigel
It is no longer a curiosity these days for a county medical society in the midst of discussing its professional…
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Syndicated Column / October 1, 1987
Take Him Out to the Ball Game
George Weigel
As we celebrate the 1987 World Series amidst continuing debate over Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost, we recall from earlier…
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Syndicated Column / October 1, 1987
Switzerland at the Cape of Good Hope?
George Weigel
In South Africa, a book that sells 5,000 copies is thought a considerable success. Since March 1986, sales of South…
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Syndicated Column / October 1, 1987
In Brief
George Weigel
We note the following bit of cross-cultural news, reported in the Baltimore Sun: When the Soviet Union launched a Syrian…
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Syndicated Column / October 1, 1987
America and the World
George Weigel
The bicentennial of the Constitution of the United States affords us the opportunity to reflect on many things: the “miracle…
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Syndicated Column / September 1, 1987
Calhoun’s Heir, or the Balkanization of American Foreign Policy
George Weigel
Of the possible arguments that the bicentennial of the Constitution might have engendered, perhaps one of the least likely is…
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Syndicated Column / July 1, 1987
The Struggle for the Catholic Human Rights Revloution
George Weigel
That the Catholic Church, in the United States and indeed throughout the world, has become a major factor in shaping…
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Syndicated Column / July 1, 1987
On His Mind
George Weigel
When A. M. Rosenthal retired some months back as executive editor of the New York Times, William F. Buckley, Jr.’s…
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Syndicated Column / July 1, 1987
The Moral Case for Democracy
George Weigel
As noted in the May/June 1987 issue of AMERICAN PURPOSE, a grant to the James Madison Foundation from the United…
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Syndicated Column / July 1, 1987