George Weigel is one of the world's foremost authorities on the Catholic Church and the author of the New York Times bestseller Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II. He has written numerous other books, including The Cube and the Cathedral, Letters to a Young Catholic, The Courage to Be Catholic, and The Truth of Catholicism. A Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., and a consultant on Vatican affairs for NBC News, Weigel's weekly column, "The Catholic Difference," is syndicated to newspapers across the United States. He lives with his wife and family in North Bethesda, Maryland.