Pope St. John Paul And Religious Liberty, Presented By The Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III ’67 Institute For Religious Liberty

The Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III ’67 Institute for Religious Liberty commemorates the 20th Anniversary of the death of Pope Saint John Paul II with two events in spring 2025. This first event features George Weigel as keynote speaker.

Weigel is a Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) and holds EPPC’s William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies. Weigel was president of the EPPC from 1989 through June 1996, where he led a wide-ranging, ecumenical and inter-religious program of research and publication on foreign and domestic policy issues.

He 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). Weigel is the author or editor of more than 30 other books, many of which have been translated into other languages and is a frequent guest on television and radio nationally and internationally.

He was decorated with the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and has also been awarded the Papal Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, the Lithuanian Diplomacy Star, and the Gloria Artis Gold Medal of Poland’s Ministry of Culture.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit thomasmore.edu/religiousliberty.