Author Profile

George Weigel

George Weigel is a distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies. He is the author or editor of more than 30 books, including The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God (2005), Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church (2013), and Letters to a Young Catholic (2015). A frequent guest on television and radio, he is also senior Vatican analyst for NBC News. His weekly column, "The Catholic Difference," is syndicated to eighty-five newspapers and magazines in seven countries.

Articles by George Weigel


Ideas and Their Consequences

Thirty years before the fall of communism, Karol Wojtyła began to see that if a successful defense of the “metaphysical sense and mystery” of the human person were not mounted…