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As France is getting ready for Benedict XVI’s arrival, American author and Catholic theologian George Weigel finds himself to be part of the preparations. French editing house Mame-Edifa-Magnificat has released — just in time for the occasion — the translation of Weigels’ book God’s Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church.

We are a tangle of hurts and longings that only makes sense, and can only be unraveled, through the discipline of mercy.

Cutting against the grain of conventional wisdom, New York Times bestseller George Weigel, offers a compelling look at the ways in which Catholic social teaching sheds light on the challenges of peace, the problem of pluralism, the quest for human rights, and the defense of liberty.

The death of Cardinal Bernardin Gantin of Benin this past May 13 marked the passing of one of world Catholicism’s…

Who were the most publicly influential American Catholics of the twentieth century? By shaping Vatican II’s teaching on Church-and-state, Father…

George Weigel examines six crucial moments in the Sixties with an eye to how they reshaped American political culture, with effects still being felt today.

More than half a decade after 9/11, safe passage through a moment of history fraught with both peril and possibility requires Americans across the political spectrum to see things as they are. In this incisive, engaging study of the present danger and what we must do to prevail against it, George Weigel, one of America's foremost public intellectuals, does precisely that: he sees, and describes, things as they are — and as they might be.

After more than twenty-six years of John Paul II’s guidance, the Catholic Church is entering a new age. In his new book, God’s Choice, George Weigel reflects on John Paul II’s greatness, paints an intimate portrait of the new Pope, and boldly assesses the Church’s current condition. God’s Choice is an invaluable book for anyone seeking to understand the Catholic future and the larger human future the Church will help to shape.

Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its discontents in the twenty-first century? Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist "cube" of the Great Arch of La Defense in Paris with the civilization that produced the "cathedral" of Notre-Dame, George Weigel argues that Europe’s embrace of a narrow secularism has led to a crisis of morale that is eroding Europe’s soul and threatening its future-with dire lessons for the rest of the democratic world.

“Cynics may find it hard to believe, but the first thing the cardinals will want to know about any possible candidate for pope it this: Is this a man of God — a man of holiness and hope who communicates holiness and hope? Beyond that, and indeed because of that and the effects of John Paul II, I think the next conclave will likely be the most open in history.”

In these letters, George Weigel conveys the power of a faith that is at once personal and universal, timely and eternal. His book will inspire not only the young generation of Catholics whose World Youth Day celebrations have launched an era of renewal for the Church, but also the faithful, the doubtful, and the searchers of every age.

In this well-reviewed book that touched a chord with so many practicing Catholics, Weigel examines the scandal in the context of church history, and exposes the patterns of dissent and self-deception that became entrenched in seminaries, among priests, and ultimately among the bishops who failed their flock by thinking like managers instead of apostles.