George Weigel
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"George Weigel" (born 1951) is an American author and political and social activist. He currently serves as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Weigel was the Founding President of the James Madison Foundation. He is the author of the 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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Europe is dying of a wasting disease of spiritual boredom. Why is a continent that is richer, healthier and more secure failing to produce the human future?

God's Choice. I hope that this means the new Cardinal O'Malley will have even greater authority and capacity to get on with the reform of the church in Boston.

No human being in history ... had ever spoken to so many people, in so many different cultural contexts.

To clarify the sequence of events.

The chances of being elected pope decreases in proportion to the number of times he is described papabile in the press.

The document simply reiterates long-standing Catholic teaching and practice.

Yet for almost 40 years, the Catholic story has been reported in starkly black-and-white terms.