Public Addresses

• Europe and America: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow The Wriston Lecture -- The Manhattan Institute. November 7, 2006.
  
• On the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary of Thomas Aquinas College October 3, 2006. Keynote address at a dinner, held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles on September 30, marking the thirty-fifth anniversary of Thomas Aquinas College.
  
• Remarks by George Weigel on Reception of the Gloria Artis Gold Medal May 1, 2006. On April 20, in the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Kazimierz Ujazdowski, presented EPPC Senior Fellow George Weigel with the Gloria Artis Gold Medal, Poland's highest honor in recognition of contributions to Polish and world culture.
  
• Telling the World Its True Story. Commencement address for the Religious Studies Division of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook, Pennsylvania. June 20, 2004.
  
• Religious Conviction and Democratic Etiquette. Comments at the Thomas More Institute, London. Thursday, May 20, 2004.
  
• The Free and Virtuous Society: Catholic Social Doctrine in the Twenty-First Century. The fourth annual Tyburn Lecture at Tyburn Convent, Marble Arch, London. May 19, 2004.
  
• Why Everyone Counts: What John Paul II Has Helped Teach Us. Commencement speech at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. May 8, 2004.
  
• The Importance of the Priest in Sanctifying the Church. Address to a diocesan luncheon in Charleston, South Carolina, following that local Church's Chrism Mass on April 15. Zenit.Org. May 17, 2003.
  
• And the Wall Came Tumbling Down: Pope John Paul II and the Collapse of Communism. A Lecture Given at Grove City College (Grove City College, PA). Feb. 15, 2002.
  
• Two Ideas of Freedom. The Inaugural William E. Simon Lecture. Dec. 1, 2001.
  
• John Paul II: A Life for Life Keynote Address: Culture of Life Conference Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture University of Notre Dame 29 November 2001. [.pdf format]
  
• Pope John Paul II and the Dynamics of History. The 2000 Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs, delivered on February 22, 2000.