
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.
A Somber Anniversary
George Weigel

Weigel reflects on Pope Francis’ last 10 years; the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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Syndicated Column / March 15, 2023
The New Ultramontanism and the Dissing of Vatican II
George Weigel

In its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium), the Second Vatican Council firmly applied the brakes to “ultramontanism”—the overheated…
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Syndicated Column / March 8, 2023
AWOL Doctors at the Catholic Field Hospital
George Weigel

The Catholic Church today is a field hospital and some of the triage doctors, rather than curing the wounded, are insisting that the hospital no longer tell people that landmines will kill you.
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Syndicated Column / March 1, 2023
Churchmen of the Year
George Weigel

In his syndicated column, Weigel discusses the defense of order and decency in world politics for Fr. Gudziak and Fr. Shevchuk in light of recent historical events.
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Syndicated Column / February 22, 2023
Memo to Gen Z Catholics: Why Vatican II Is Still Important
George Weigel

Weigel writes on the absolute wrong that is the anti-Vatican II movement among Gen Z Catholics
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Syndicated Column / February 15, 2023
What Pro-Choice Black Leadership Has Wrought
George Weigel

A closer look at what the pro-choice movement is really doing for the black community
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Syndicated Column / February 8, 2023
“Inclusion” and Catholicism
George Weigel

Woke “inclusion” is not authentic catholicity.
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Syndicated Column / February 1, 2023
The White-Martyr Cardinals’ Dinner
George Weigel

The conversation turned to those times when the Lord seems to be deaf to the pleas of his people—times not unlike what many Catholics experience today.
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Syndicated Column / January 25, 2023
Cardinal George Pell: The Encourager
George Weigel

I know of few public figures who have displayed the moral courage George Pell displayed for decades as he defended and promoted the truth of Catholic faith.
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First Things / January 18, 2023
On the Death and Requiem of Cardinal George Pell
George Weigel

The embodiment of Catholic fearlessness, Cardinal George Pell, has gone to his eternal reward.
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First Things / January 16, 2023