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As the Revised Standard Version renders the 14th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, Paul and Barnabas remind the proto-Christians of Antioch that it is only “through many tribulations” that we …
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George Weigel
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5/10/13
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It was a brief greeting to former colleagues. But if you read Pope Francis’s April 18 letter to the Argentine bishops’ conference closely, you get a glimpse of the man, his convictions and his …
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George Weigel
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5/1/13
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88 views
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If the conclave of 2005 was about continuity — extending the legacy of John Paul II by electing his closest theological advisor as his successor — the conclave of 2013 was about governance. …
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George Weigel
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4/3/13
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138 views
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When Pope Francis stepped out onto the central loggia of St. Peter’s on the night of March 13, I thought of the man I had met in his Buenos Aires office 10 months before: Cardinal Jorge Mario …
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George Weigel
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3/20/13
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165 views
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Despite an enormous amount of media chaff throughout April 2005, it was clear to those with eyes to see that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was the obvious, leading candidate to succeed John Paul II. …
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George Weigel
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3/13/13
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186 views
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ROME — At the point at which John Paul II began his papacy in the first volume of my biography of him, Witness to Hope, I borrowed some thoughts from Hans Urs von Balthasar and tried to explain a …
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George Weigel
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3/6/13
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238 views
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At his election in 2005, some thought of him as a papal place-keeper: a man who would keep the chair of Peter warm for a few years until a younger papal candidate emerged. In many other ways, and …
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George Weigel
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2/27/13
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309 views
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Forty years ago, on Jan. 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down Roe v. Wade, one of the two worst decisions in its history. The first court’s mega-error, the 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. …
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George Weigel
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1/21/13
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419 views
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Eighteenth-century British Jacobites wistfully toasted “the king over the water,” referring to exiled King James II, his successors and the Jacobite hope for a Stuart restoration to the throne of …
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In his speech to the Democratic National Convention, nominating President Obama for a second term, former President Bill Clinton said that the choice before America was a stark one: What kind of …
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George Weigel
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10/31/12
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427 views
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