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.
Ethics, War, and Peace
George Weigel
At its November 1986 meeting, the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace awarded a grant of…
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Syndicated Column / May 1, 1987
Madison Senior Fellowships
George Weigel
The James Madison Foundation’s two senior fellows, Joshua Muravchik and David Satter, are both at work on projects that we…
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Syndicated Column / May 1, 1987
On Keeping Your Head
George Weigel
Your editor remembers that his seventh-grade teacher, Sister George Mary, was a fanatic for memorization who required that “If” be…
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Syndicated Column / May 1, 1987
In Brief
George Weigel
Democracy requires that some people, at least, stand back from the immediate controversies of public life in order to set…
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Syndicated Column / May 1, 1987
The Chroniclers
George Weigel
You won’t see it offered for discount sale by Publishers Clearing House. You may not even be able to find…
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Syndicated Column / March 1, 1987
Light From the East
George Weigel
Press and popular attention to matters of East and West naturally tends to focus on the extravaganzas: summit conferences, the…
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Syndicated Column / March 1, 1987
Fog From the West
George Weigel
Tone-deafness to the message of men such as Adam Michnik, Vaclav Havel, and George Konrad is not a disability of…
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Syndicated Column / March 1, 1987
And, Last But Not Least, From the South…
George Weigel
Arturo Cruz of Nicaragua is a man intuitively in sync with the message of Vaclav Havel, Adam Michnik, and George…
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Syndicated Column / March 1, 1987
The Hauerwas Theses
George Weigel
Professor Stanley Hauerwas of the Duke University Divinity School is on anybody’s short list of the most provocative and thoughtful…
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Syndicated Column / March 1, 1987
A Question of Witness
George Weigel
One of the most extraordinary transformations in contemporary American public life has been the radical change in the ideological orientation…
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Syndicated Column / February 1, 1987