The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types. — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The Guardian,[is] one of the most consistently anti-Catholic newspapers in the world. — George Weigel Copy Share Image
What I hope my liberal friends (and I have more than a few) take from this pontificate is that mercy and truth… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing Catholics can do for the pope is to pray for him. — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Then [Catholics] owe [pope] the loyalty that is expressed in speaking the truth to him - and that puts a premium on… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
By the same token, the new and stringent Ultramontanism on the Catholic Left - in which even the mildest questions about how… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The Germans now seem the primary example of this [institutional-maintenance type] - which is another reason to scratch the head at their… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I'd also hope that my liberal friends, who find in this pope a critic of what they're pleased to call "culture-warrior" Catholics,… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Perhaps the dumbest of these story lines is that [Pope] Francis has re-opened conversation and debate in a Church that had been… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The story wafts across the Atlantic, where it's picked up with glee by Catholic progressives and horror by some Catholic conservatives -… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
[Pope] Francis ought to be taken at his word when he says, as he has often done, that he is a son… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The most enduring of the false narratives is that the signature phrase of the early pontificate - "Who am I to judge?"… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The "encounter" with the people on the peripheries is intended to draw them into the circle of common care and concern -… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
If [Pope's Francis] media-generated popularity, fragile as that may turn out to be when the world discovers that the pope is really… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
But ripped out of context, ["Who am I to judge?" phrase] has become an all-purpose filter through which everything else - including the pope's… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“This life of ours . . . is a gift from God. It is not of our choosing. It comes to us by his choice. Since it… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I hope ["reanimated the papacy"] means that the new interest in the pope evokes a new interest in the Church's teaching, of which the… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
What I hope my liberal friends (and I have more than a few) take from this pontificate is that mercy and truth are never… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types. — George Weigel Copy Share Image
[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… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Be the Church - that is, be an evangelical movement that tells the world of God's passionate love for humanity. That, not institutional maintenance,… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly. — George Weigel Copy Share Image
[Pope] Francis communicates the pastoral embrace of the Church, the breadth and inclusiveness of Catholicism symbolized by the Bernini colonnade around St. Peter's Square,… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest of Catholic… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
![“The Guardian,[is] one of the most consistently anti-Catholic newspapers in the world.” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/410/george-weigel-9372_catholic_the-guardian-is-one-of-the-most-consiste_1284434.jpg)
![“Then [Catholics] owe [pope] the loyalty that is expressed in speaking the truth to him - and that puts a premium on knowing whether what you're happy about, on unhappy about, has a basis in fact, or is merely a reflection of the "narrative.” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a24/george-weigel-9372_bases_then-catholics-owe-pope-the-loyalty-that_1212464.jpg)
![“By the same token, the new and stringent Ultramontanism on the Catholic Left - in which even the mildest questions about how things are working in this pontificate are denounced as treasonous disloyalty - is an affront to the open conversation for which the pope [FRANCIS] has called.” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e10/george-weigel-9372_affront_by-the-same-token-the-new-and-stringent_1885252.jpg)
![“The Germans now seem the primary example of this [institutional-maintenance type] - which is another reason to scratch the head at their seeming determination to force the whole Church to adopt the Catholic Lite approach that has, in a bizarre inversion, emptied German churches of congregants…” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c59/george-weigel-9372_approach_the-germans-now-seem-the-primary-example_1938058.jpg)
![“Perhaps the dumbest of these story lines is that [Pope] Francis has re-opened conversation and debate in a Church that had been closed and claustrophobic for 35 years under John Paul II and Benedict XVI. I defy anyone who, over the last 35 years, has spent time on the campuses of Notre Dame or…” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4fe/george-weigel-9372_benedict-xvi_perhaps-the-dumbest-of-these-story-lines_1945253.jpg)
![“[Pope] Francis ought to be taken at his word when he says, as he has often done, that he is a son of the Church who believes and teaches what the Catholic Church believes and teaches.” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/237/george-weigel-9372_believe_pope-francis-ought-to-be-taken-at-his-wo_2551712.jpg)
![“If [Pope's Francis] media-generated popularity, fragile as that may turn out to be when the world discovers that the pope is really a Catholic, opens windows of possibility for explaining that divine mercy leads us to the truths God revealed to us (and inscribed into the world and into us), then…” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fee/george-weigel-9372_catholic_if-pope-s-francis-media-generated-popula_1999412.jpg)
![“But ripped out of context, ["Who am I to judge?" phrase] has become an all-purpose filter through which everything else - including the pope's multiple reaffirmations of Humanae Vitae, Paul VI's encyclical on the morally appropriate means of family planning - gets airbrushed out of the picture.” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b1d/george-weigel-9372_appropriate_but-ripped-out-of-context-who-am-i-to-ju_146817.jpg)
![“I hope ["reanimated the papacy"] means that the new interest in the pope evokes a new interest in the Church's teaching, of which the pope is the custodian.” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a8e/george-weigel-9372_church_i-hope-reanimated-the-papacy-means-that_225548.jpg)
![“The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about "center" and "periphery." The "peripheries," for Francis, are all those who have fallen through the cracks of late-modernity and…” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/14f/george-weigel-9372_argentina_the-pope-francis-takes-his-vocabulary-fr_261899.jpg)
![“[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.” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/79d/george-weigel-9372_absorption_pope-francis-sees-a-world-in-need-of-the_343248.jpg)
![“[Pope] Francis communicates the pastoral embrace of the Church, the breadth and inclusiveness of Catholicism symbolized by the Bernini colonnade around St. Peter's Square, in a powerful way.” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/06a/george-weigel-9372_bernini_pope-francis-communicates-the-pastoral-e_495970.jpg)