1. George Weigel was born on 1951 and is an American Catholic neoconservative author, political analyst, and social activist.
16 Facts About George Weigel
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George Weigel currently serves as a distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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George Weigel is the author of a best-selling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, and Tranquillitas Ordinis: The Present Failure and Future Promise of American Catholic Thought on War and Peace.
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George Weigel was born and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended St Mary's Seminary and University.
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George Weigel has received 18 honorary doctorate degrees, as well as the papal cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice and the Gloria Artis Gold Medal from the Polish Ministry of Culture.
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George Weigel lived in the Compton area, serving as assistant professor of theology and assistant dean of studies at the St Thomas the Apostle Seminary School of Theology in Kenmore, Washington, and scholar-in-residence at the World Without War Council of Greater Seattle, before returning to Washington, DC, as a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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George Weigel served as the founding president of the James Madison Foundation from 1986 to 1989.
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From 1989 through June 1996, George Weigel was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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George Weigel currently serves as Distinguished Senior Fellow and Chair of Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC.
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George Weigel is a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
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George Weigel writes and serves on the board for the Institute for Religion and Public Life, which publishes First Things, an ecumenical publication that focuses on encouraging a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society.
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The main body of George Weigel's writings engage the issues of religion and culture.
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George Weigel wrote Witness to Hope, a biography of the late Pope John Paul II, which was made into a documentary film.
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In 2005, he expanded the article into a book, The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God, which has been cited in the context of "Eurabia literature", which George Weigel has himself cited as a possible future scenario for Europe.
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In January 2009, George Weigel expressed concern on the lifting of the excommunications of the bishops of the Society of Saint Pius X, essentially because the group has been critical of some aspects of the Second Vatican Council, especially its teaching on religious liberty, which George Weigel strongly defends.
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George Weigel was critical of the 2019 Amazon Synod and the structure of church synods in general, saying that they never fully represent what lay Catholics believe and describing them as a masquerade for the intrusion of progressive ideologies into the Catholic church.