George Weigel: 17 books
City of Saints
A Pilgrimage to John Paul II's Kraków
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
“Karol Wojtyła, Pope John Paul II, was a man whose life was the expression of a richly textured and multidimensional soul. The many layers of that soul took on their first, mature form in Kraków.” – George Weigel
In this beautifully illustrated spiritual travelogue, New York Times bestselling...
The End and the Beginning
Pope John Paul II -- The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
“As March gave way to April in the spring of 2005 and the world kept vigil outside the apostolic palace in Rome, the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, then drawing to a poignant end, was already being described as one of the most consequential in two millennia of Christian history.”
With these...
The Final Revolution
The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2003
The collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe--the Revolution of 1989--was a singularly stunning event in a century already known for the unexpected. How did people divided for two generations by an Iron Curtain come so suddenly to dance together atop the Berlin Wall? Why did people who...
God's Choice
Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
George Weigel's bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, set the standard by which all portraits of the modern papacy are now measured. With God's Choice, he gives us an extraordinary chronicle of the rise of Pope Benedict XVI as well as an unflinching view of the Catholic Church...
The Cube and the Cathedral
Europe, America, and Politics Without God
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy in the twenty-first century? Why is Europe dying, demographically? In The Cube and the Cathedral, George Weigel offers a penetrating critique of "Europe's...
The Courage To Be Catholic
Crisis, Reform And The Future Of The Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
When sexual scandals rocked the American Catholic Church, many observers and faithful alike called on the church to abandon its tenets on the vocation of the priesthood and sexuality outside marriage -- to, in effect, become more Protestant. Acclaimed theologian and best-selling author George Weigel...
by George Weigel
Language: French
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: March 19, 2015
L'Église catholique se trouve au seuil d'une époque radicalement nouvelle de son histoire bimillénaire. Le rideau tombe pour l'Église telle que la Contre Réforme du XVIe l'avait façonnée, et se lève pour le catholicisme évangélique du troisième millénaire: une manière d'être catholique...
by George Weigel
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The modern spiritual classic, from a celebrated Catholic writer
In this remarkable exploration of the Catholic world, prominent Catholic author and papal biographer George Weigel offers a luminous collection of letters to young Catholics, not-so-young Catholics, and curious souls who wonder...
Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism
A Call to Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
“History must be made to march in the direction of genuine human progress; world affairs have no intrinsic momentum that necessarily results in the victory of decency. Maintaining the morale necessary to achieving progress in history requires us to live our lives, today, against a moral horizon...
Lessons in Hope
My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A preeminent authority on the Catholic Church and papal biographer describes what he learned from chronicling the life of Pope John Paul II
In Lessons in Hope, George Weigel tells the story of his unique friendship with St. John Paul II. As Weigel learns the pope "from inside," he...
Evangelical Catholicism
Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The Catholic Church is on the threshold of a bold new era in its two-thousand year history. As the curtain comes down on the Church defined by the 16th-century Counter-Reformation, the curtain is rising on the Evangelical Catholicism of the third millennium: a way of being Catholic that comes from...
Roman Pilgrimage
The Station Churches
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
A preeminent scholar of Catholicism transports readers to Rome for the traditional station churches pilgrimage, offering a vivid and informative guide to the Eternal City and the Lenten season.
The annual Lenten pilgrimage to dozens of Rome's most striking churches is a sacred tradition dating...
The Truth of Catholicism
Inside the Essential Teachings and Controversies of the Church Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The Catholic Church may be the most controversial institution in the world. Whether the question is the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, the relationship of Catholicism to other religious communities, the meaning of freedom, the use and abuse of sex, the dignity of human life from conception until natural...
Witness to Hope
The Biography of Pope John Paul II
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“Fascinating...sheds light on the history of the twentieth century for everyone.”—New York Times Book Review
Now, with an updated preface, the latest edition of the definitive biography of Pope John Paul II that explores how influential he was on the world stage and in some of the most...
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