George Weigel
Author
Publisher
Ignatius
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The world is full of interesting people, and it has been George Weigel's good fortune to have known many such personalities in a variety of fields: politics, religion, the arts and sciences, journalism, the academy, entertainment, and sports. In this collection of reminiscences and elegies, the best-selling author of the definitive biography of Pope Saint John Paul II remembers these men and women from inside the convictions that formed them. Whether...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A leading Catholic intellectual explains why the teachings of the Second Vatican Council are essential to the Church's future—and the world's. The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) was the most important Catholic event in the past five hundred years. Yet sixty years after its opening on October 11, 1962, its meaning remains sharply contested and its promise unfulfilled. In To Sanctify the World, George Weigel explains the necessity...