Publications

The Moral Dignity of the Human Person

George Weigel

Basically all problems of justice have as their main cause the fact that the person is not sufficiently respected, taken…

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Syndicated Column / April 1, 1993

Steps on the Hard Road to Civilization

George Weigel

That is why, with vigilance but also in solidarity with initiatives and advances which help man grow, the Church rejoices…

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Syndicated Column / April 1, 1993

Humanitarian Law

George Weigel

This broad survey of the international scene, which has become traditional in the framework of our annual meeting, has above…

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Syndicated Column / April 1, 1993

The Foundation of Happiness

George Weigel

Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, at this beginning of the year, amidst the clamor of arms and of events too…

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Syndicated Column / April 1, 1993

The Vatican and the Worlds of this World

George Weigel

Amidst all the world’s other problems—the possible outbreak of a general Balkan war, genocide in the south of Sudan, the…

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Syndicated Column / March 1, 1993

Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen:

George Weigel

At the beginning of the year 1993, it is a particular pleasure for me to receive the good wishes which…

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Syndicated Column / March 1, 1993

The Travail of Africa

George Weigel

War is tearing apart many of the peoples of Africa. In Liberia, for example, the path to reconciliation is proving…

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Syndicated Column / March 1, 1993

The Challenge of Peace Ten Years after "The Challenge of Peace"

George Weigel

In the fall of 1989, David Hollenbach, S.J., the prominent Catholic social ethicist who had vigorously defended the theological and…

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Syndicated Column / February 1, 1993

A Cautionary Tale

George Weigel

I too have been amazed at the astonishing pace of historical change over the past decade; and I agree that…

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Syndicated Column / February 1, 1993

A Moral Horizon for U.S. Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

George Weigel

As richly textured human and historical realities, “centuries” do not always follow the conventions of our system of dating. The…

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Syndicated Column / February 1, 1993

Five Issues

George Weigel

Were the NCCB to make a powerful moral argument on behalf of responsible internationalism, linking the defense of the “national…

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Syndicated Column / February 1, 1993

A Community of Prayer

George Weigel

With the end of the Cold War, humankind seemed poised to take what Pope John Paul II proposed in 1981:…

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Syndicated Column / February 1, 1993