George Weigel

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George Weigel is a Senior Fellow and John M. Olin Chair in Religion and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC). A "Roman Catholic theologian and one of America's leading commentators on issues of religion and public life", Weigel is considered to be a conservative Roman Catholic social ethicist." His areas of expertise include Catholic social teaching, religion and democracy, and just-war tradition." [1][2]

With Robert Pickus, Weigel formed the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), "spending millions of taxpayers' money funding Nicaragua's opposition press." Weigel served as advisor for the U.S. Information Agency (USIA). [3]

"A native of Baltimore, he was educated at St. Mary's Seminary College in his native city, and at the University of St. Michael's College in Toronto. In 1975, Weigel moved to Seattle where he was Assistant Professor of Theology and Assistant (later Acting) Dean of Studies at the St. Thomas Seminary School of Theology in Kenmore. In 1977, Weigel became Scholar-in-Residence at the World Without War Council of Greater Seattle, a position he held until 1984. In 1984-85, Weigel was a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. There, he wrote Tranquillitas Ordinis: The Present Failure and Future Promise of American Catholic Thought on War and Peace (Oxford University Press, 1987)." [4]

"From 1986 until 1989, Weigel served as founding president of the James Madison Foundation [5]. From 1989 through June 1996, 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. From June 1996, in his present role as a Senior Fellow of the Center, Weigel prepared a major study of the life, thought, and action of Pope John Paul II." [6]

Weigel was one of the original 25 signatories of the Project for the New American Century.

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