Weigel’s Baseball Idolatry: Trivializing Genesis for Sport in the Neo-Church
National Catholic Register portal (July 15, 2026) publishes a commentary by George Weigel, the neo-conservative apologist of the conciliar establishment, titled “World Cup Blues, of a Sort.” Weigel, ensconced in the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society in Krakow—a hotbed of post-conciliar “Catholic social doctrine” divorced from the Kingship of Christ—laments the FIFA World Cup with five trivial objections: that soccer neglects the God-given opposable thumb, that it lacks scoring, that penalty kicks decide championships, that players engage in histrionics, and that FIFA is corrupt. He concludes by retreating to “summer baseball programming.” This article manifests the utter secularization of the neo-church intelligentsia, reducing Holy Scripture to a sporting apologetic and ignoring the supernatural crisis of the Church.