Every spring, the slate of commencement speakers at Catholic colleges across the country delivers a fresh round of inspiration — and sparks controversy. In fact, debate on the merits of this or that ...

Catholic commentator George Weigel has suggested that the Society of St. Pius X’s (SSPX) response to the lifting of the excommunications of its leaders may not bode well for the full reunion of the ...

The pontificate of Pope Leo XIV can bring new impetus to the Church’s evangelical mission in the world today, theologian and philosopher George Weigel said this week. Weigel held a public lecture on ...

During the March 2013 interregnum following the abdication of Pope Benedict XVI, and in the conclave itself, proponents of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ, as Benedict’s successor described him as ...

“George Weigel is the kind of thinker who can write just a paragraph,” said a friend, “and it’s profound and worth reading.” So it’s okay that I’m quoting Weigel on Henry Hyde from a year ago. Our ...

COMMENTARY: 'We recognized in each other Catholics who were committed to a Church that was ever more effective in its evangelization and witness, which required transparency from the Church and candor ...

Last Christmas, I borrowed a thought from the English spiritual writer Caryll Houselander and suggested in this space that the wood of the manger anticipates the wood of the Cross: that Christmas ...

Now that the trees have dropped their leaves for the season, people tend to notice a greenish-gray crusty growth on the bare trunks. Although it may look worrisome, this growth isn’t a fungus, moss, ...