George Weigel

Reluctant as I am to fiddle with the U.S. Constitution, I'm willing to consider an amendment banning any elementary school from opening before Labor Day.

Here's PennLive garden writer George Weigel's Plant Pick of the Week for this week: Common name: Barrenwort ‘Sulphureum'

As Russian missiles and drones continue their assault on Ukrainian civilians, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, has just published “War: Beyond the Visible Causes and Consequences,” doubling down on his campaign to justify in religious terms

Several weeks after Islamist terrorists hijacked four planes, wreaking havoc in lower Manhattan and at the Pentagon in the name of deranged religious convictions, I was at dinner in...

Several weeks after Islamist terrorists hijacked four planes, wreaking havoc in lower Manhattan and at the Pentagon in the name of deranged religious convictions, I was at dinner in the papal apartment with John Paul II and three of his closest associates. The mood was somber, which was unusual at that table. The pope's hope for a “new springtime of the human spirit” in the wake of the bloody twentieth century, which he had proclaimed at the United Nations in 1995, seemed to have been thwarted. And a country he had come to love and appreciate, the United States, had been deeply wounded. So an hour's conversation revolved around what this all meant — a question John Paul put to me directly.

Matrix plantings are catching on as a way to aid pollinators while cutting down on yard work.

This summer's second-half rains fueled a wave of weeds that has yardeners wondering if there's a better way to head off weedy outbursts than the back-breaking, never-ending job of mulching.

Just because the temperatures stay warm in fall doesn't mean garden crops are going to ripen as fast as they do in summer.

The biggest disappointment for those who grow home vegetable gardens in the fall is having their crops fail to produce before cold ends the season's bounty.

Several weeks after Islamist terrorists hijacked four planes, wreaking havoc in lower Manhattan and at the Pentagon in the name of deranged religious convictions, I was at dinner in the papal apartment with John Paul II and three of his closest associates.