Let us stipulate that the terms “international community” and “rules-based international order” have often been reduced to meaningless word-salads. Let’s further stipulate that some who …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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11/16/22
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Writing my new book, “To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II” (Basic Books), afforded me the welcome opportunity to dig into the Council’s 16 texts and the many fine commentaries …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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10/19/22
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In one of his Blackford Oakes novels, William F. Buckley Jr. had a character crack a Wagnerian joke along these lines: What is “Siegfried”? “Siegfried” …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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8/24/22
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About two-thirds of the way through the fine 1992 film, “A League of Their Own,” star catcher Dottie Hinson …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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7/27/22
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ROME—Catholic journalists around the world are now able to count one of their number among the saints, as Titus Brandsma, a Dutch Carmelite killed at the Dachau concentration camp in 1942, was …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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5/18/22
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In both the Roman and Byzantine liturgical calendars, Lent …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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4/20/22
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If you’ve not been in the Vatican basilica on Feb. 22, the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, by all means put that on your bucket list. Not only is that the day when the statue of the Prince of …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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3/23/22
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