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	George Weigel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Weigel (Baltimore, 1951 -) is an American conservative author, Roman Catholic theologian and political and social activist.
		Weigel lived in Seattle, serving as Assistant Professor of Theology and Assistant Dean of Studies at the St. Thomas Seminary School of Theology in Kenmore, Scholar-in-Residence at the World Without War Council of Greater Seattle, before returning to Washington, D.C., as a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
		Weigel tends to strongly support the teachings of the recent popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, although he has differed with specifics of their opposition to war and capital punishment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Weigel (723 words)

	The Cube and the Cathedral - George Weigel
		Weigel also makes it sound as though references to the European Union's roots in Christianity are an obvious part of any EU constitution, and that it is almost unthinkable that they not be included (and hence it's so outrageous a situation that they, in fact, were not included).
		Weigel finds widespread "Christophobia" among politicians and intellectuals, and a denial of the role of Christianity in shaping contemporary Europe (blaming the detours that were the horrors of World Wars I and II on the fact that religion no longer played a guiding role in Europe).
		Weigel is particularly concerned about the declining Christian population in Europe because, aside from the obvious pressures it puts on those societies (too few young workers to pay for the upkeep of the retired and sick) it also might allow for an Islamic take-over of Europe.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/religion/weigelg.htm (3237 words)

	George Weigel on the Church in Crisis
		George Weigel, a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Roman Catholic theologian and one of America's leading commentators on issues of religion and public life.
		George Weigel's major study of the life, thought, and action of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II (Harper Collins, 1999) was published to international acclaim in 1999, and translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Czech, Slovenian, Russian, and German.
		George Weigel is a consultant on Vatican affairs for NBC News, and his weekly column, "The Catholic Difference," is syndicated to more than fifty newspapers around the United States.
	www.catholiceducation.org /links/jump.cgi?ID=3477 (1592 words)

	The Cube and the Cathedral By George Weigel, Book Review in America, the Catholic magazine with book reviews, news, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		Weigel uses the metaphors of Notre Dame Cathedral and the modern La Grande Arche de la La Défense (both in Paris) to explore Europe’s inability to appreciate its Christian roots and its refusal to acknowledge Christianity in the preamble to the new constitution of the European Union.
		Weigel declares that Europe is suffering from rampant “Christophobia,” caused, he explains, by factors that include the rebellion of 1968, the tendency to associate Christianity with “the right” and resentment toward the late John Paul II and any influential religious leader like him.
		Weigel declares that the community of the cathedral is capable of coming to grips with the shadow side of its history, capable of learning from the past and capable of dialogue.
	www.americamagazine.org /BookReview.cfm?articleTypeID=31&textID=4251&issueID=535 (916 words)

	George Weigel on John Paul II’s Impact
		Weigel: The papacy has long claimed a universal “reach.” John Paul II gave this claim real meaning by becoming a kind of one-man moral reference point for the entire world.
		Weigel: John Paul II’s pivotal role in the collapse of European communism — igniting a revolution of conscience that eventually produce the non-violent political revolution of 1989 — was a tremendous achievement.
		Weigel: I certainly wouldn’t suggest that I could speak for the late Pope, but as his biographer, it seems to me that the great “work undone” in the pontificate involved John Paul’s ecumenical initiatives, particularly with Orthodoxy.
	www.ewtn.com /library/CHISTORY/ZJP2WEIG.HTM (1155 words)

	Discovery Institute - George Weigel
		George Weigel, a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and an Adjunct Fellow of Discovery Institute, is a Roman Catholic theologian and one of America's leading commentators on issues of religion and public life.
		From 1989 through June 1996, Weigel was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he led a wide-ranging, ecumenical and inter-religious program of research and publication on foreign and domestic policy issues.
		George Weigel and his wife, Joan, live in North Bethesda, Maryland with their three children.
	www.discovery.org /scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=29&isFellow=true (445 words)

	Archdiocese of Boston - 12/3/2004 - George Weigel speaks at St. John’s Seminary
		Weigel was at the seminary to give a talk on “The achievement of Pope John Paul II” Nov. 23.
		Weigel outlined two of the pope’s great “public” accomplishments: his pivotal role in the revolution of 1989 that brought down the Berlin wall and saw a collapse of communism and his challenge to countries in light of that revolution to form “free and virtuous societies.”
		Weigel stressed that the pope is bringing Catholics back to the evangelical origins of the Church and has been, like Peter, a witness.
	www.rcab.org /Pilot/2004/ps041203/weigelspeaks.html (1082 words)

	FT March 2004: War & Statecraft - An Exchange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		As Weigel notes, this is effectively to say that morality has no public voice, that what he calls “statecraft” is beyond the reach of moral, especially religiously moral, principle; and he rightly rejects this as an unsustainable view for any religious person.
		Such aggression, Weigel suggests, doesn’t have to be an actual event of military violence: the mere possession of weapons of mass destruction by a state whose regime may properly be mistrusted as an enemy of justice constitutes some sort of sufficient cause for intervention.
		Weigel seems to assume that we have already gotten to the point where such a discernment has happened; not only coercion in general but military coercion has emerged as the only possible course.
	print.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0403/articles/williamsweigel.html (4235 words)

	A Catholic Votes for George W. Bush by George Weigel, America: The Catholic Weekly Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		Millions of Catholics are going to vote for George W. Bush—and millions of Catholics are, frankly, appalled at the thought of their fellow Catholic, John Kerry, as president of the United States—because of two dramatic changes in ideas and institutions over the past four decades.
		George W. Bush is the kind of president Scoop Jackson would have eagerly supported (as he supported Ronald Reagan); I cannot imagine Senator Jackson summoning any enthusiasm for John Kerry, the kind of Democrat who twice denied Scoop the party’s presidential nomination.
		George Weigel is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., and the author, most recently, of Letters to a Young Catholic.
	www.americamagazine.org /gettext.cfm?articleTypeID=1&textID=3768&issueID=497 (1866 words)

	USA: George Weigel on Just-War Principles
		Weigel: The just-war tradition begins with the assumption - better, the classic moral judgment - that rightly constituted public authorities have the moral obligation to pursue justice, order and freedom as the components of peace, even when doing so requires public authorities to put their own lives at risk.
		Weigel: I am quite convinced that pre-emptive military action against terrorists is morally legitimate under the principles of the just-war tradition.
		Weigel: The question of sovereignty is another one where the just-war tradition needs development or "stretching." The U.N. system is, in the main, not very successful at all in dealing with world order and security issues.
	www.katolsk.no /nyheter/2001/10/15-0011.htm (2346 words)

	George Weigel
		George Weigel, a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Roman Catholic theologian and director of the Catholic Studies program at the center.
		Weigel taught at St. Thomas Seminary School of Theology in Kenmore before becoming Scholar-in-Residence at the World Without War Council of Greater Seattle, and later fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. From 1986 until 1989, Weigel served as founding president of the James Madison Foundation.
		Weigel, who has been awarded six honorary doctorates and the papal cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, serves on the boards of directors of several organizations dedicated to human rights and the cause of religious freedom.
	ethicscenter.nd.edu /about/weigel.shtml (380 words)

	THE COURAGE TO BE CATHOLIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		Weigel spares neither American bishops nor Roman authorities for the distressing failures to deal with the "subtle, interior, invisible schism" resulting from the rejection of Humanae Vitae that would create the present fissures and fractures in the Church today.
		Weigel insightfully explains how the Catholic university system, seminaries, and the burgeoning bureaucracies of the Church on the national and even parochial levels must be reformed.
		George Weigel has written a truly courageous book that not only exposes the evils that have rocked the Church but also heralds real hope for the future of the Church in the United States.
	credo.stormloader.com /Reviews/cobecath.htm (647 words)

	Amazon.com: Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II: Books: George Weigel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		Weigel, a Catholic layman and a fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., enjoyed the cooperation of the pope and access to top Vatican officials, so the book is rich in new detail.
		Weigel's own credentials as a religious thinker and writer, his access to the Pope and to senior officials of the Holy See, the dramatic life of his subject--- all these make the nearly 900 pages of this immense book richly rewarding for the serious reader.
		Weigel had access to a wide variety of personal friends and associates of John Paul II and uses these interviews extensively, including ten extended interviews with John Paul himself, who gave him free reign to write what he liked and never interfered in the process.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006018793X?v=glance (2727 words)

	George Weigel's Tour Guide for Young Catholics - Catholic Online
		Papal biographer Weigel shared the impetus behind his new book, "Letters to a Young Catholic" (Perseus): to suggest to young readers that there is an entire Catholic "world" to be discovered -- and that discovering it is a way to deepen one's spiritual life and understanding of the faith.
		Weigel is a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he holds the John M. Olin Chair in Religion and American Democracy.
		Weigel: The best thing this generation has going for it is its dates-of-birth -- which is to say, this is a generation that wasn't stewed in the juices of the '60s.
	www.catholic.org /featured/headline.php?ID=781 (1129 words)

	Right-Web \| Individual Profile \| George Weigel
		George Weigel, a senior scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) and a charter signatory of the Project for the New American Century, argues for a foreign policy shaped by realism and "moralism without illusions." For Weigel and other social conservatives, one must accept that there is no escaping the threat of evil.
		In Weigel's view, the tendency for Christians--especially progressives he considers befuddled by Catholic liberation theology and the national bureaucracies of the Protestant churches--to view the morality of the Sermon on the Mount as a guide to foreign policy is not only bad theology but dangerous politics.
		Weigel was also a principal at the Puebla Institute and an associate of the anticommunist World Without War Council, which promoted U.S. military action to secure Pax Americana.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /ind/weigel/weigel.php (643 words)

	The Criterion Online Edition - November 4, 2005
		George Weigel, senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., Catholic theologian and author of the bestseller, Witness to Hope: The Biography of John Paul II, has written another book.
		Weigel characterizes the late pope’s last days as his “last, great paternal lesson,” a lesson about the dignity of human life and the value of redemptive suffering.
		Later in the chapter, Weigel analyzes what he believes to be election specifics, saying that Cardinal Ratzinger perhaps received 50 votes on the first ballot, with Cardinals Ruini and Bergoglio also receiving support.
	www.archindy.org /criterion/local/2005/11-04/review.html (523 words)

	Townhall.com :: Columns :: Challenged by modernity by George Will - Apr 17, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		But what was said of Georges Clemenceau -- that he had one illusion, France, and one disillusion, mankind, including the French -- might, with some exaggeration, be said of John Paul II and Poland.
		But Weigel also argues that Europe's crisis of civilizational morale was catalyzed by World War I. So Europe's retreat from religion might reflect a reasonable weariness and wariness born of four centuries of religious wars and convulsions wrought by the political religions of fascism and communism.
		George F. Will is a 1976 Pulitzer Prize winner, whose columns are syndicated in more than 400 magazines and newspapers worldwide.
	www.townhall.com /columnists/georgewill/gw20050417.shtml (738 words)

	Europe, America, and Politics Without God: An Interview with George Weigel
		George Weigel on his new book, the secularization of European culture and politics, and the nature of religious belief in America.
		George Weigel, a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., is the well-known biographer of the late Pope.
		Paul Belien of The Brussels Journal interviewed George Weigel about his new book, in which he tackles what he calls “Europe’s problem.” According to Weigel, Europe is dying in the most literal sense: it is depopulating itself.
	www.intellectualconservative.com /article4672.html (3354 words)

	George Weigel on the National Review Board's Report
		George Weigel thinks the U.S. bishops' National Review Board has turned out a report that is a "real service to the Church" as Catholics face the question of genuinely Catholic reform in light of the John Jay study of clerical sexual abuse.
		Weigel: There are particular recommendations in the report with which it's entirely possible to disagree — and I do.
		Weigel: I hope everyone who cares about authentically Catholic reform in the Church reads the report and thinks about it seriously.
	www.ewtn.com /library/ISSUES/ZNRBWEIG.HTM?wings (633 words)

	OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
		Weigel, the problem goes all the way back to the 14th century, when scholastics like William of Ockham argued for "nominalism." According to their philosophy, universals--concepts such as "justice" or "freedom" and qualities such as "white" or "good"--do not exist in the abstract but are merely words that denote instances of what they describe.
		Weigel argues, "then there are no universal moral principles that can be read from human nature." If there are no universal moral truths, then religion, positing them, is merely a form of oppression or myth, one from which Europe's elites see themselves as liberated.
		Weigel is on firmer ground when he analyzes Europe's present condition, with its low birth rates, heavy debts, Muslim immigration worries and tendency to carp from the sidelines when the fate of nations is at stake.
	www.opinionjournal.com /la?id=110006554 (995 words)

	Weigel, George; Weigel, George: The Courage to Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		Weigel, George; Weigel, George: The Courage to Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church
		Acclaimed theologian and best-selling author George Weigel saw the crisis differently: as a crisis of fidelity to the true essence of Catholicism.
		In this well-reviewed book that touched a chord with so many practicing Catholics, Weigel examines the scandal in the context of church history, and exposes the patterns of dissent and self-deception that became entrenched in seminaries, among priests, and ultimately among the bishops who failed their flock by thinking like managers instead of apostles.
	www.forbesbookclub.com /bookpage.asp?prod_cd=ILKSE (250 words)

	Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II by George Weigel Falls Short
		Weigel here presents John Paul II as his hero, attempts to analyze all of his life, diplomacy and writings, and credits him with saving civilization through a profound Christian humanism.
		Weigel assures his readers that there are not two Wojtylas, one a doctrinal conservative and the other a “social-political liberal,” but rather one profound, committed Christian.
		Weigel’s own political and economic views constantly and shamelessly erupt to undermine practical application of the Pope’s consistent ethic of life, which for the Holy Father, includes economics and the terribleness of war.
	www.cjd.org /paper/jp2bio.html (3415 words)

	George Weigel: Online Archive and Resources
		Discussion and Response, by George Weigel and a Panel of Critics.
		George Weigel on the 25 Years of John Paul II.
		Weigel on the Church Crisis in U.S. Interview with ZENIT.
	www.ratzingerfanclub.com /Weigel (1442 words)

	Conservative Book Service: The Cube and the Cathedral by George Weigel
		Weigel explains why Europe suddenly seems so distant from America, and why Americans have to be concerned with modern Europe's flight from politics, its demographic crisis, and its willful forgetfulness of its civilizational roots.
		Indeed, during the 2004 debate over the constitution, when lobbyists (including the Pope) urged the EU to acknowledge Europe's Christian heritage, a Swedish member of the constitutional convention thought these lobbyists were joking, and many other commentators worried that mention of Christianity's role in shaping European mores might 'exclude' non-Christians.
		(On that argument, Weigel wryly notes that the mention of the Enlightenment 'excludes' postmodernists.) The author argues that this thin secularism, an agreement among Europeans to be officially neutral on matters of worldview, religion, and morality, will fail the very things the EU claims it wants to safeguard and promote: democracy and human freedom.
	www.conservativebookservice.com /products/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6620 (881 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II - George Weigel - Paperback - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		Weigel, a distinguished Catholic scholar and philosopher who has been writing about this pope for more than 20 years, has taken seriously the task of portraying John Paul II's complexities.
		Weigel's grasp of complexity does not extend to his treatment of the Pope's detractors, however.
		Weigel also includes previously unpublished papal correspondence with Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Deng Xiaoping, and draws on hitherto unavailable autobiographical reminiscences by the Pope..
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2TPMAB07F0&isbn=0060932864&itm=1 (1742 words)

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