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George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Catholic theologian and a leading public intellectual. Weigel is the author of Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II, which has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Czech, Slovenian, Russian, and German, with forthcoming editions in Chinese and Romanian. Weigel is the author or editor of twenty books, including The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism (Oxford, 1992); The Courage To Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church (Basic Books, 2002); Letters to a Young Catholic (Basic, 2004); The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God (Basic, 2005); God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church (HarperCollins, 2005); Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism (Doubleday, 2007); and Against the Grain: Christianity and Democracy, War and Peace (Crossroad, 2008). He has written essays, op-ed columns, and reviews for the major opinion journals and newspapers in the U.S., and is a contributor to Newsweek. A frequent guest on television and radio, he is also a Vatican analyst for NBC News. His weekly column, "The Catholic Difference," is syndicated to sixty newspapers in the U.S. and he is a member of the editorial board of First Things.