In 2004 Weigel wrote an article in "Commentary" magazine entitled "The Cathedral and the Cube" in which he used the contrast between the modernist "Grande Arche de la Défense", and the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, both located in Paris, France, to illustrate what he called a loss of "civilizational morale" in Western Europe, which he tied to the secular tyrannies of the 20th century, along with, more recently, plummeting birthrates and Europe's refusal to recognize the Christian roots of its culture. The article helped to popularize the word "Christophobia", a term coined by the Jewish legal scholar Joseph Weiler, in 2003.