The Dispatch

Questions to enliven Synod-2023

October 18, 2023 George Weigel 15

The first session of the “Synod on Synodality,” currently meeting in Rome, is slated to be followed by a second such month-long affair in October 2024. Both aim to build a “Synodal Church of Communion, […]

The Dispatch

India, China, and the future

September 27, 2023 George Weigel 4

The September 2 issue of The Spectator featured a cartoon of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak riding an ascending rocket. Inside, the lead article – a preview of the G-20 Summit […]

The Dispatch

Living communio in Cracow

September 6, 2023 George Weigel 5

I wish all those who find themselves concerned, depressed, befuddled, or angry at the present state of the Church could have spent July 3-21 in that city of saints, Cracow, along with my students and […]

Essay

Archbishop Fernández and the learning curve

August 23, 2023 George Weigel 32

“Pope Francis has just given the Vatican his Ratzinger,” declared one July 2 headline; “Pope Francis Finds His Ratzinger,” announced another, four days later. Both quickie assessments of Argentinian Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández’s appointment as […]