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.
Open Mikes
George Weigel
Washington, D.C., which gets abuzz over things large and small, was aflutter just after the November elections with another Charles…
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Syndicated Column / February 1, 1987
Ike Revisited
George Weigel
AMERICAN PURPOSE is not intended to be penitential reading. Thus, from time to time, we want to share some…
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Syndicated Column / February 1, 1987
Breaking Ranks
George Weigel
It is no longer news (although it is often treated as such) when a church group urges disinvestment in South…
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Syndicated Column / January 1, 1987
Orwell Lives
George Weigel
One of the surest signs of trouble in any resistance movement is when its leaders begin to fudge the definition…
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Syndicated Column / January 1, 1987
The Posner (and Arbatov and Gerasimov) Problem
George Weigel
Last spring, after President Reagan’s televised address to the nation on his proposed 1987 defense budget, the networks provided the…
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Syndicated Column / January 1, 1987
"Rightist Overtones." Indeed
George Weigel
Being “in the center” is usually considered desirable in American public life. “Middle-of-the-road” carries with it images of the tolerance,…
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Syndicated Column / January 1, 1987
Back in the USSR
George Weigel
Ever since the Geneva summit, there has been intense interest in “citizen exchange” programs with the Soviet Union. In light…
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Syndicated Column / January 1, 1987
American Purpose, Our Purposes
George Weigel
Beneath the surface of American public life a great debate is gathering. The great debate is not about the Strategic…
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Syndicated Column / January 1, 1987
Oscar Arias at the Nobel Awards Ceremony
George Weigel
Your Majesty, my fellow Nobel Laureates, ladies and gentlemen: Thank you for the honor you have bestowed on me this…
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Syndicated Column / January 1, 1987