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George Weigel Receives Poland’s Highest Honor

Congratulations to author/philosopher George Weigel, a senior fellow and former president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and an adjunct fellow of Discovery Institute, who has just been accorded the highest award given by the government of Poland.

On April 20, in the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Kazimierz Ujazdowski, presented Weigel with the Gloria Artis Gold Medal, Poland’s highest honor in recognition of contributions to Polish and world culture. In a letter to Weigel announcing the award, Minister Ujazdowski cited Weigel’s “monumental” biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, as well as his contributions to “promoting the concept of democracy based on universal moral values rooted in Christianity.” George Weigel is only the second non-Pole to receive this distinction from the Government of Poland.

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