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Theological Shock Therapy
The first wave of reactions to the announcement by the Vatican on Tuesday of a new arrangement for receiving into the Roman Catholic Church groups of Anglican clergy and laity who would retain distinctive elements of their spiritual and liturgical heritage tended toward the critical: Rome's move, it was suggested, was a new obstacle to Anglican-Catholic dialogue, an act of ecclesiastical "poaching," and a retreat from the ecumenical commitments of the Second Vatican Council. What the Vatican intended as an act of ecumenical hospitality, however, was also bit of theological shock therapy: a moment of clarification in a situation that had begun to resemble an ecumenical wonderland in which well-intentioned people taught themselves impossible things before breakfast.
October 22, 2009 | International | By George WeigelThe President and the Pope
When he meets Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on July 10, President Barack Obama will find himself in conversation with a man who is, at heart, a teacher. Which raises the question: what lessons might Professor Ratzinger be interested in proposing to President Obama?
July 08, 2009 | Politics | By George WeigelHow to Sell a Better Pope
grandfather running a corporation," says James Martin, who works at the Jesuit magazine America. "He's shy," offers George Weigel, the papal biographer who is also a newsweek contributor. "He also has a sense that the word of truth should have
May 14, 2009 | BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller | By Lisa MillerParsing the Pontiff
No matter how much the Vatican rightly insists that the primary purpose of Benedict XVI's journeys outside Rome is to "strengthen the brethren"—as Christ instructed Peter to do—papal travel is inevitably political travel. Especially when that travel is to the Holy Land.
May 06, 2009 | Religion | By George WeigelOpening Remarks: A Post-Christian America?
that underscored religious liberty rather than the imposition of explicitly religious values in the public sphere. George Weigel, the Roman Catholic theologian and papal biographer, disagrees with talk of a post-Christian America--to an
April 04, 2009 | Featured | By NewsweekThe Editor’s Desk: A Post-Christian America
that underscored religious liberty rather than the imposition of explicitly religious values in the public sphere. George Weigel, the Roman Catholic theologian and papal biographer, disagrees with talk of a post-Christian America—to an extent
April 04, 2009 | Editor's Letter | By Jon MeachamThe Pope’s Denial Problem
the Society of St. Pius X," has upset many liberal Catholics as well as some quite conservative ones, among them George Weigel. But should we consider it as an internal affair of the Roman Catholic Church? Here is why we should not. The crucial
January 31, 2009 | Religion | By Christopher HitchensRome’s Reconciliation
the Catholic right, just when it was fading into insignificance on the dwindling Catholic left, its longtime home. GEORGE WEIGEL, a NEWSWEEK contributor, is Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center, where
January 26, 2009 | Religion | By George WeigelA True Pastor
no bad way for the man who dubbed his poor Bedford-Stuyvesant parish "St. John the Mundane" to be remembered. GEORGE WEIGEL, a Newsweek contributor, holds the William E. Simon Chair at Washington ' s Ethics and Public Policy Center.
January 13, 2009 | Religion | By George WeigelRichard John Neuhaus, 1936–2009
Father Richard John Neuhaus's work will be remembered and debated for decades. As a Lutheran pastor, he was one of the first civil-rights activists to identify the pro-life cause with the moral truths for which he and others had marched in Selma; he set the terms of the contemporary American church-state debate and added a new phrase to our public vocabulary with his 1984 bestseller, "The Naked Public Square." As a Catholic priest, he helped define new patterns of theological dialogue between Catholics and evangelicals, and between Christians and Jews. The journal he launched in the early 1990s, First Things, quickly became, under his leadership and inspiration, the most important vehicle for exploring the tangled web of religion and society in the English-speaking world. All of this suggests that Richard Neuhaus was, arguably, the most consequential public theologian in America since the days of Reinhold Niebuhr and John Courtney Murray, S.J.
January 10, 2009 | Religion | By George Weigel- Showing 1 - 10 of 48 results
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