Who is George Weigel?

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George Weigel was a french artist. He was born in the late 1700s, and is famous for his masterpiece, Dame de la mer, which is french for, lady of the sea. George Weigel was mostly famous for hiding in his cellar during the war of 1812, while he painted over 100 paintings. George Weigel died of hunger during the war of 1812, because he did not bring enough food down to the cellar with him.

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In addition to the above, there is also a George Weigel who is an American author and political and social activist, born in 1951. He is a Catholic theologican who was educated in Mt. St. Mary's Seminary and College. From Ethics and Public Policy Center:

From 1989 through June 1996, Mr. Weigel was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he led a wide-ranging, ecumenical and inter-religious program of research and publication on foreign and domestic policy issues. From June 1996, as a Senior Fellow, Mr. Weigel prepared a major study of the life, thought, and action of Pope John Paul II. Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II was published to international acclaim in the fall of 1999, and has since been translated into twelve languages, with a Chinese edition currently in progress.

Mr. Weigel is the author or editor of some twenty other books, including The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II-The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy (Doubleday, 2010); Practicing Catholic: Essays Historical, Literary, Sporting, and Elegiac (Crossroad, 2012); Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church (Basic, 2013) and Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches (Basic, 2013).His essays, op-ed columns, and reviews appear regularly in major opinion journals and newspapers across the United States. A frequent guest on television and radio, he is also Vatican analyst for NBC News. His weekly column, "The Catholic Difference," is syndicated to sixty newspapers.