George Weigel, Author . HarperCollins/Cliff Street $24 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-621330-9
Because the teachings of the Catholic Church are best known to the general public—and to many Catholics—through the filter of the secular press, papal biographer Weigel (Witness to Hope) uses this book to clarify 10 issues that have...
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George Weigel, Author . Basic $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-465-09260-4
American Catholics divided over the future direction of their church have managed to agree on one thing in recent months: much reform is needed in the wake of the clergy sexual-abuse scandal. Weigel, a theologian and papal biographer (Witness to...
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George Weigel, Author . Basic $23 (208p) ISBN 978-0-465-09266-6
Paris's modernist La Grande Arche de la Défense and the Gothic Cathedral of Notre-Dame serve as metaphors for papal biographer Weigel's (Witness to Hope
) examination of what has happened to Europe in the last several decades and its...
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George Weigel, Author . Doubleday $15.95 (195p) ISBN 978-0-385-52378-3
Addressing Islamic terrorism and America’s response as a global leader, Catholic commentator Weigel (senior fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center, and author of Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II) argues that “[t]he...
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George Weigel, Author . Crossroad $24.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-8245-2448-7
In this collection of 12 previously published essays, each revised considerably for this volume, noted Catholic pundit Weigel (Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope
) ranges provocatively over a diverse selection of topics from social justice and...
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George Weigel, Author HarperCollins Publishers $26.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-06-621331-6
The biographer of Pope John Paul II (Witness to Hope) chronicles the transition between John Paul's papacy and that of his successor, Pope Benedict XVI, in this blend of history, biography, analysis and forecasting. Readers familiar with John Paul's
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George Weigel, Author HarperCollins Publishers $35 (1008p) ISBN 978-0-06-018793-4
Weigel's massive work aspires to be definitive: it is subtitled ""the,"" not ""a,"" biography of John Paul II. Weigel, a Catholic layman and a fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., enjoyed the cooperation
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George Weigel, Author Oxford University Press, USA $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-19-507160-3
``What Lenin started at Petrograd's Finland Station on April 16, 1917 . . . Pope John Paul II began to dismantle . . . on June 4, 1979'' with his celebration of the first pontifical Mass in a Communist country, an event Weigel ( Peace and Freedom )...
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George Weigel, Author Basic Books $22.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-465-09262-8
In this spiritual memoir-cum-travelogue, Weigel writes with the same beauty and clarity that characterized his biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, merging reportage with personal insights about Catholicism. He takes readers on a journey
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George Weigel with Elizabeth Lev and Stephen Weigel. Basic, $35 (448p) ISBN 978-0-465-02769-9
A pilgrimage is an important practice in many religious traditions. Weigel, popular Catholic author (The Courage to be Catholic) and senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, traces an ancient Christian pilgrimage traditionally...
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George Weigel. Basic, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-465-09429-5
Weigel, official biographer of Pope John Paul II and distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, episodically reveals his experiences accompanying (and studying) Pope John Paul II and the impact this famous pope had on...
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George Weigel. Basic, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-465-09431-8
Weigel (The Next Pope), a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, examines the impact of the Second Vatican Council in this thorough chronicle. Through close readings of the council’s decrees and declarations, Weigel explores why Pope...
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