Weigel’s Summer Reading List: A Conciliar Potemkin Village of False Ecumenism and Antipapal Legitimacy
George Weigel, the distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the house theologian of the neo-conservative establishment, presents his 2026 summer reading list in the National Catholic Register. The list comprises titles ranging from a Trappist bishop’s retreat conferences for the usurper “Leo XIV” to a Protestant analysis of gender ideology, a Jesuit novel on the Risorgimento, a Russian Orthodox exposé of Putin’s subservience, and a collection of sermons by the apostate Benedict XVI. The thesis is clear: the conciliar sect continues to manufacture a simulacrum of Catholic intellectual life by legitimizing its antipopes, promoting false ecumenism with heretics and schismatics, and substituting the social reign of Christ the King with a baptized Americanism and a sterile “culture war” strategy.