George Weigel is an American author and political and social activist. Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Weigel was the Founding President of the James Madison Foundation.
Each summer, Weigel and several other Catholic intellectuals from the United States, Poland, and across Europe conduct the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society in Krakow, in which they and an assortment of students from the United States, Poland, and several other emerging democracies in Central and Eastern Europe discuss Christianity within the context of liberal democracy and capitalism, with the papal encyclical Centesimus Annus being the focal point.
He is a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
Books in order of publication:
Tranquillitas Ordinis: The Present Failure and Future Promise of American Catholic Thought on War and Peace, Oxford University Press, 1987.
Catholicism and the Renewal of American Democracy, Paulist Press, 1989
American Interests, American Purpose: Moral Reasoning and U.S. Foreign Policy, Praeger Publishers, 1989
Freedom and Its Discontents: Catholicism Confronts Modernity, Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1991
Just War and the Gulf War, co-authored with Johnson, James Turner. Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1991
The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism, Oxford University Press, 1992
Soul of the World: Notes on the Future of Public Catholicism, Eerdmans, 1996,
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II, HarperCollins, 1999,
The Truth of Catholicism: Ten Controversies Explored, HarperCollins, 2001
The Courage To Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church, Basic Books, 2002
Letters to a Young Catholic, Basic Books, 2004
God’s Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church, HarperCollins, 2005
The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God, Basic Books, 2005
Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action, Doubleday, 2007
Against the Grain: Christianity and Democracy, War and Peace, Crossroad, 2008
The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II–The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy, Doubleday, 2010
Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches, Basic Books, 2013, Co-Authors: Elizabeth Lev, Stephen Weigel
Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Catholic Church, Basic Books, 2013
City of Saints: A Pilgrimage to John Paul II’s Kraków, Crown Publishing Group, 2015, Co-Authors: Carrie Gress, Stephen Weigel
Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II, Basic Books, 2017
The Fragility of Order: Catholic Reflections on Turbulent Times, Ignatius Press, 2018
The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform, Basic Books, 2019
The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission, Ignatius Press, 2020
Not Forgotten: Elegies For, and Reminiscences Of, a Diverse Cast of Characters, Most of Them Admirable, Ignatius Press, 2021
To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II, Basic Books, 2022
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