Category: GEORGE WEIGEL

The humanitarian and strategic disaster of Syria should focus Catholic minds on the hard fact that there is...

Chesterton’s rollicking humor, which bound both friend and foe to him, was not a quirk of personality. It...

Russell Shaw has become the bull in the china shop of U.S. Catholic history, knocking heroes off pedestals...

It was a brief greeting to former colleagues. But if you read Pope Francis’s April 18 letter to...

The recent papal interregnum and conclave underscored the importance of re-forming, and reforming, the College of Cardinals....

Certain ritual encounters have now become standard operating procedure for a new pope. In each of these meetings,...

In a Sistine Chapel homily, given to the cardinals who had elected him pope the evening before, the...

When Pope Francis stepped out onto the central loggia of St. Peter’s on the night of March 13,...

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was the obvious, leading candidate to succeed John Paul II. There is no such clear...

Joseph Ratzinger proved himself a man of surprises. What did he accomplish, and what was left undone, over...