George Weigel

It’s a safe bet that “Mother Mary Lange” is not a household name in most U.S. Catholic circles. That unhappy state of affairs may change, though, thanks to a courageous initiative now underway in Baltimore, one of America’s most troubled cities.

A new anthology highlights the work of the late Father Paul Mankowski, one of the U.S. Church’s brightest spirits and noblest sons.

Vocal Vatican advocacy for such basic human rights as religious freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom of the press could make a real difference for persecuted Catholics in Hong Kong and mainland China.

Chaim Potok’s novels are intensely Jewish and deeply American in a way that hasn’t really been replicated by U.S. Catholic authors. American Catholicism could use a Chaim Potok today.

The times demand a Church in mission, proclaiming Jesus Christ as the answer to the question that is every human life.

It’s imperative that the record about Leo XIII’s political theory be clarified before today’s Catholic integralists misrepresent the great Leo further—and their critics continue to make matters worse by swallowing the misrepresentation.

The example of Colonel Ryszard Kukliński should be pondered by Catholic citizens and Catholic public officials throughout the West today, who are called to resist, with similar moral courage and effect, that form of the culture of death that masquerades as the ideology of “choice.”

By actively facilitating a grave moral evil, President Biden and others have put themselves in a defective state of communion with the Church, such that their own integrity requires that they not present themselves for holy communion.

The recent apostolic letter Traditionis Custodes [Custodians of the Tradition] was theologically incoherent, pastorally divisive, unnecessary, cruel—and a sorry example of the liberal bullying that has become all too familiar in Rome recently.

Media distortions are not simply annoying; they can have serious public effects. It’s worth remembering the quite robust terms in which Pope Francis has condemned abortion.

Liberation from lockdowns and quarantines ought not be liberation from serious reading, opportunities for which being one of the few boons of the recent past. Here are some suggestions for summer enrichment.

The days are past when the American hierarchy could be cowed by the political and journalistic principalities and powers and the “progressive” Catholic media.