Faithful Politics "Conservative Faith" w/George Weigel, Sr. Fellow Ethics and Public Policy Center
The Republican Party emerged in 1854 to combat the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery into American territories. The early Republican Party consisted of northern Protestants, factory workers, professionals, businessmen, prosperous farmers, and after 1866, former black slaves. If the Republican Party of the mid 1800's were to look at the modern day Conservative it would be almost indistinguishable from what they originally envisioned. However, the guest this week, George Weigel, represents a facet of the Republican Party that still believes in the riches of the Judeo-Christian tradition to contemporary questions of law, culture, and politics, in pursuit of America’s continued civic and cultural renewal. George is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and was the previous president of that organization from 1989 through June 1996.
The hosts spoke with George about a wide range of issues from the looming threat of war from Russia, as they amass over 100k troops along the Ukrainian border, to the erosion of a universal understanding of truth.
Check out some of the George Weigel's publications: https://eppc.org/author/george_weigel/
Guest Bio:
George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals. He holds EPPC’s William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies.
From 1989 through June 1996, Mr. Weigel was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he led a wide-ranging, ecumenical and inter-religious program of research and publication on foreign and domestic policy issues.
Mr. Weigel is perhaps best known for his widely translated and internationally acclaimed two-volume biography of Pope St. John Paul II: the New York Times bestseller, Witness to Hope (1999), and its sequel, The End and the Beginning (2010). In 2017, Weigel published a memoir of the experiences that led to his work as a papal biographer: Lessons in Hope — My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II.
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