George Weigel Archive
On Friday, June 18, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved a motion, by a margin of 166-58, to prepare a document widely anticipated, correctly or not, to address the necessary disposition for the reception of Holy Communion, with commentary concerning public …
Most regular readers of these pages have long been convinced that Catholic neo-conservatism is a religious pathology that presents as spiritual blindness; i.e., an inability to see that which is in plain sight, inevitably leading to a denial of objective reality. Even so, …
The Benedict Option, a book written by Rod Dreher, Senior Editor and blogger at The American Conservative, seems to be getting a fair amount of attention, both pro and con, in Catholic circles these days. For instance, Bishop Robert Barron wrote : “So …
In a recent article for First Things, George Weigel provided excellent insights into the neo-conservative Catholic mind as he bemoaned the allegedly soon-to-occur regularization of the Society of St. Pius X; claiming that doing so “would immeasurably damage the New Evangelization.” From his …