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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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Despite being immersed for over 30 years in the study of modern Polish history, I must confess that I’d never heard of the heroic Ulma family until recently. I’ll get to the circumstances of my …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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2/23/22
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While history is always full of surprises, including happy ones, I must confess that
I’m not full of Pentecostal joy as I consider the next 12 months.
World politics are likely to be grim. …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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1/26/22
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In July 2016, as we were sitting on the fantail of the Swiss sidewheeler Rhone while she chugged across Lake Geneva, my host pointed out the city of Lausanne, where a massive, glass-bedecked …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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12/15/21
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As the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops meets this week in Baltimore, misconceptions about a proposed conference statement on the Eucharistic vitality and integrity of the Church in …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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11/17/21
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Some years ago, a Catholic prep school invited me to address its parents’ association on the future of Catholic education. After describing how a truly Catholic education, stressing human and …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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10/20/21
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It’s a safe bet that “Mother Mary Lange” is not a household name in most U.S. Catholic circles. That unhappy state of affairs may change, though, thanks to a courageous initiative now underway …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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10/6/21
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It’s a safe bet that “Mother Mary Lange” is not a household name in most U.S. Catholic circles. That unhappy state of affairs may change, though, thanks to a courageous initiative …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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9/17/21
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On the Solemnity of Christ the King in 2013, Pope Francis completed the work of the 2012 Synod of Bishops with the apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel), issuing a ringing …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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8/25/21
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At 1 p.m. EDT on June 18, it was announced that three-quarters of the U.S. bishops had voted to develop a statement on the eucharistic integrity of the Church and the eucharistic coherence of …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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7/14/21
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It’s now the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but for native Baltimoreans of a certain vintage (like me) it is, was and always will be “the Old …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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6/16/21
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Unfortunately forgotten in most U.S. Catholic circles today, Cardinal Albert Gregory Meyer, archbishop of Milwaukee from 1953 to 1958 and archbishop of Chicago from 1958 to 1965, was one of the …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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5/19/21
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The Paschal Triduum this year seemed like a return from exile: Holy Thursday’s Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, in church; Good Friday’s Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion, in church; …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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4/21/21
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As the names Ambrose, Augustine, Athanasius and John Chrysostom suggest, the middle centuries of the first millennium, the era of the Church Fathers, were the golden age of the Catholic episcopate. …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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4/7/21
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Ten years ago, I began a most extraordinary Lent by walking up the Aventine Hill to the Basilica of Santa Sabina on the first day of the Roman station church pilgrimage—an eight-week journey that …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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2/24/21
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A wretched year came to a sorrowful end when Father Maciej Zięba, O.P., died in his native Wrocław, Poland, on Dec. 31. The birthplace of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Wrocław was also the home of St. …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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1/27/21
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How bad a year has it been? Let me not count the ways. Good books can hearten us in 2021 and beyond, though. Herewith, then, some suggestions for Christmastide book-giving:
“Prison Journal, …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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12/17/20
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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
There are many exemplars of the cardinal virtue of courage in the Catholic Church today: Catholics in Hong Kong who risk their lives and livelihoods in defense …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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11/18/20
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