About the Author
Published Pieces
![Interior of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville, South Carolina](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-09/st-marys-greenville-interior-3x2.jpg?itok=34SoKVh-)
Why and How We Pray
In the ninth chapter of "Letters to a Young Catholic," Weigel explores restoration and liturgical renewal by focusing on St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville, South Carolina.
![Sistine Chapel Ceiling](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-12/sistine-chapel-ceiling-hero-image-1024x638.jpg?itok=lAWxEby4)
Body Language, God-Talk, and the Visible Invisible
In the eighth chapter of "Letters to a Young Catholic," Weigel explores the masterfully decorated Sistine Chapel, which shows forth the grand drama of salvation history and threatens to pull back the veil of the spiritual realm.
![Castle Howard](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-08/castle-howard-1500x1000-wikimedia-public-domain.jpg?itok=kbtLvK1G)
Brideshead Revisited and the Ladder of Love
In the seventh chapter of "Letters to a Young Catholic," Weigel explores Castle Howard in Yorkshire, England, to reflect upon the choice offered to us all: submit to reality or fly into fantasy.
![Portrait of G.K. Chesterton](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-07/chesterton-portrait-cigar-1500x1000.jpg?itok=8Pbzu0lh)
Chesterton's Pub and a Sacramental World
In the sixth chapter of Letters to a Young Catholic, Weigel explores Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese to reflect on the life and vision of G.K. Chesterton.
![A portrait of John Henry Newman, 1844](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-06/john-henry-newman-785x523.jpg?itok=hheE5XFd)
Newman and 'Liberal' Religion
In the fifth chapter of "Letters to a Young Catholic," Weigel explores the Birmingham Oratory to reflect on the conversion, life, and theology of St. John Henry Newman.
![Fra Angelico's "Annunciation"](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-05/fra-angelico-annunciation.jpg?itok=T6nGRTNV)
Mary and Discipleship
In the fourth chapter of "Letters to a Young Catholic," Weigel explores the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition in Jerusalem to reflect upon Mary's unhesitating "fiat" to the will of God.
![Sunlight pouring into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-04/david-rodrigo-UqokjFxh2aY-unsplash-1500x1000.jpg?itok=-zdvB2Rg)
The Face of Christ
In the third chapter of "Letters to a Young Catholic," Weigel explores two places that confront us with the reality of Christ: a monastery on Mt. Sinai and the Holy Sepulchre.
![The Façade of St. Peter's Basilica](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-03/fr-barry-braum-jUjwmlQUEGk-unsplash-1500x1000.jpg?itok=l1x1UT2M)
The Grittiness of Catholicism
In the second chapter of "Letters to a Young Catholic," Weigel explores the grittiness and historicity of Christianity, focusing on the bones of St. Peter in the Vatican excavations ('Scavi').
![Jules Breton](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-02/the-blessing-of-the-wheat-jules-breton%203to2%20%281%29.jpg?itok=DEwIlkwq)
Acquiring a 'Habit of Being'
In the first chapter of "Letters to a Young Catholic," George Weigel explores what it means to grow up Catholic, growing into a common way of life with shared customs and a shared symbolic world.