George Weigel
Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies
Program: Catholic Studies
Contact: catholicstudies@eppc.org
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. From June 1996, as a Senior Fellow, Mr. Weigel prepared a major study of the life, thought, and action of Pope John Paul II. Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II was published to international acclaim in the fall of 1999, and has since been translated into twelve languages, with a Chinese edition currently in progress.
Mr. Weigel is the author or editor of some twenty other books, including The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II—The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy (Doubleday, 2010); Practicing Catholic: Essays Historical, Literary, Sporting, and Elegiac (Crossroad, 2012); Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church (Basic, 2013); Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches (Basic, 2013) and City of Saints: A Pilgrimage to John Paul II’s Kraków (Image, 2015). 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 sixty newspapers.
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 eighteen honorary doctorates in fields including divinity, philosophy, law, and social science.
George Weigel is a giant. George, God bless you for everything you do, not only for this organization, not only for the church, no only for the country, but truly for humanity.
Robert P. George
PUBLICATIONS
Popes in These United States
Published in The Catholic Difference on September 16, 2015
George Weigel Discusses Pope Francis’s U.S. Visit
Published in La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana [The New Daily Compass] on September 17, 2015
Remembering “The Few”
Published in The Catholic Difference on September 9, 2015
An Epistolary Romp Through Catholicism
Published in The Catholic Difference on September 2, 2015
Catacomb Time?
Published in The Catholic Difference on August 26, 2015
The Deeper Issue at the Synod
Published in The Catholic Difference on August 19, 2015
The Perils of “Preferred Peers”
Published in First Things on August 12, 2015
Taking the “Long View” on Russia
Published in The Catholic Difference on August 5, 2015
The Amazing, and Now Venerable, Father Al
Published in The Catholic Difference on July 29, 2015
Flannery O’Connor and Catholic Realism
Published in The Catholic Difference on July 22, 2015
Letter from Cracow, Poland’s Crown Jewel
Published in National Review Online on July 22, 2015
The New Normal Gets Down and Dirty . . . and Other Predictable Consequences of Obergefell
Published in National Review Online on July 18, 2015
George Weigel Interview in Poland’s Sunday Visitor on the Battle for Marriage
Published in Gość Niedzielny [Sunday Visitor] (Poland) on July 15, 2015
Progressive Catholic Authoritarianism
Published in The Catholic Difference on July 15, 2015
Has the Vatican Already Forgotten the Lessons of John Paul II?
Published in National Review Online on July 13, 2015
Cuban Hopes for the Papal Visit
Published in The Catholic Difference on July 8, 2015
Society Exists Prior to the State, Obergefell Notwithstanding
Published in National Review Online on July 3, 2015
Lessons for Today, after Obergefell, from Catholics Who Were Persecuted under Elizabeth I
Published in National Review Online on June 29, 2015
The Church and the “New Normal”
Published in The Catholic Difference on June 26, 2015
The Summer Reading List
Published in The Catholic Difference on June 24, 2015
Two Critical Nutrients of Conservative Jewish Soil
Published in Mosaic on June 3, 2015
The Pope’s Encyclical, at Heart, Is About Us, Not Trees and Snail Darters
Published in National Review Online on June 18, 2015
Now, the Kasper Theory of Democracy?
Published in The Catholic Difference on June 17, 2015
America’s Next ‘Minister of Culture’: Don’t Politicize the Appointment
Published in National Review Online on June 12, 2015
Themes for Surviving “Ordinary Time”
Published in The Catholic Difference on June 10, 2015
The Myth of Washington Gridlock
Published in The Catholic Difference on June 3, 2015
Men Such As These: A Memorial Day Reflection
Published in The Catholic Difference on May 27, 2015
The Catholic Church’s German Problem
Published in The Catholic Difference on May 20, 2015
What Catholics Forget About World Affairs
Published in National Review Online on May 19, 2015
The Difference Cardinal George Made
Published in The Catholic Difference on May 13, 2015
Castro and the Pope: A Real Conversion?
Published in National Review Online on May 12, 2015
John Paul II and “America”
Published in The Catholic Difference on May 6, 2015
The Pontifical Spin Cycle
Published in National Review Online on May 5, 2015
Plague Days in Baltimore
Published in National Review Online on May 1, 2015
Remembering Number 84
Published in The Catholic Difference on April 29, 2015
“Wolf Hall” and Upmarket Anti-Catholicism
Published in The Catholic Difference on April 22, 2015
What Jews and Christians Can Do Together
Published in National Review Online on April 22, 2015
Cardinal Francis George, R.I.P.
Published in National Review Online on April 17, 2015
Newman and Vatican II
Published in The Catholic Difference on April 15, 2015
Easter and Evangelism
Published in The Catholic Difference on April 8, 2015
In Praise of James Billington
Published in National Review Online on April 6, 2015
Easter and the Cosmic Christ
Published in National Review Online on April 5, 2015
St. John Paul II and the “Tyranny of the Possible”
Published in The Catholic Difference on April 1, 2015
The Indomitable and Effective Cardinal Pell
Published in The Catholic Difference on March 25, 2015
New Interview with George Weigel on Evangelical Catholicism
Published in Famille Chretienne (Fr.) on March 24, 2015
A Mission of Love
Published in The Catholic Difference on March 18, 2015
George Weigel Interviewed on the Second Anniversary of Pope Francis’s Election
Published in National Review Online on March 13, 2015
Keeping Catholic Schools Catholic
Published in The Catholic Difference on March 11, 2015
On a Mission to the World
Published in Tablet (UK) on March 7, 2015
Lenin Meets Corleone
Published in National Review Online on March 7, 2015
No Fighting God
Published in The Catholic Difference on March 4, 2015
World Christianity by the Numbers
Published in The Catholic Difference on February 25, 2015
Unhappy Anniversary
Published in National Review Online on February 24, 2015
Ukraine: Disinformation and Confusion
Published in The Catholic Difference on February 18, 2015
Lent, Day By Day
Published in The Catholic Difference on February 11, 2015
Evangelical Challenges for Vatican Diplomacy
Published in The Catholic Difference on February 4, 2015
Westminster Abbey and Charlie Hebdo
Published in National Review Online on January 28, 2015
Nonsense on ‘Sixty Minutes’
Published in The Catholic Difference on January 28, 2015
POTUS on Ukraine: A Reverie
Published in National Review Online on January 22, 2015
Europe and Nothingness
Published in The Catholic Difference on January 21, 2015
To See Things As They Are
Published in First Things - February 2015 issue on January 21, 2015
Owning Our Baptism
Published in The Catholic Difference on January 14, 2015
Africa’s Catholic Moment
Published in The Catholic Difference on January 7, 2015
To Defend the Disposable
Published in The Catholic Difference on December 31, 2014
Christmas and the Humbling of the Wise Men
Published in The Catholic Difference on December 24, 2014
Between Two Synods
Published in First Things, January 2015 issue on December 17, 2014
Francis, Filtered
Published in The Catholic Difference on December 17, 2014
Obama Scuttles. America Retreats. Things Fall Apart.
Published in Standpoint Magazine (UK), January/February 2015 issue on December 17, 2014
Kowtowing to Moscow is Bad Ecumenism
Published in The Catholic Difference on December 10, 2014
Books for Christmas
Published in The Catholic Difference on December 3, 2014
Lessons from Dietrich von Hildebrand
Published in The Catholic Difference on November 26, 2014
Vatican II and the Berlin Wall
Published in The Catholic Difference on November 19, 2014
Ukrainian Lessons for the West
Published in National Review Online on November 17, 2014
Ecumenism and Russian State Power
Published in The Catholic Difference on November 12, 2014
Ukraine Rising
Published in National Review Online on November 10, 2014