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Be the Church - that is, be an evangelical movement that tells the world of God's passionate love for humanity. That, not institutional maintenance, is what the Church is for. When the Church is that, and does that, it flourishes.
George Weigel
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George Weigel
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: April 17
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The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types.
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Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto.
George Weigel
Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.
George Weigel
[When the Gospel seems to be interpreted in different ways] is the obvious challenge, perhaps even danger, here. By its very nature as a custodial office, the papacy can't be a Rorschach test, into which people read whatever they like - whatever they fear or hope for.
George Weigel
The emphasis on the peripheries is also a distinctively Franciscan way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.
George Weigel
Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.
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[Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.
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What I hope my liberal friends (and I have more than a few) take from this pontificate is that mercy and truth are never separable in Catholic pastoral life.
George Weigel
The most important appointment Pope Francis has made is the appointment of the Australian cardinal, George Pell, as the Vatican's financial overseer.
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The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in the fullest meaning of human freedom.
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Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a new prescription for your glasses - or with a new set of ideological filters.
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The pope [Francis] knows that the marriage culture is in crisis throughout the world, and so is the family.
George Weigel
The most enduring of the false narratives is that the signature phrase of the early pontificate - Who am I to judge? - was a matter of the pope jettisoning millennia of Catholic moral teaching. It was not. It was a specific response to the circumstances of a man who had repented and was trying to live an upright life.
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[Pope Francis] has felt the mercy of God in his own life and wants to share that experience with others.
George Weigel
Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.
George Weigel
The only future is intentional Catholicism, evangelical Catholicism.
George Weigel
The pope [Francis] speaks with great passion about the shame we should all feel when, as he puts it, a man does not have the dignity of earning bread for his family, but is turned into a peripheral person, a welfare client, a dependent.
George Weigel
The Guardian,[is] one of the most consistently anti-Catholic newspapers in the world.
George Weigel
[Pope Francis]sees a world in need of the Gospel, and of friendship with Jesus Christ, as an antidote to the self-absorption and loneliness that are eating away at the solidarity of the human community.
George Weigel
You don't believe what you read in the papers about anything else why do you believe it about the pope? That's where I'd start.
George Weigel
