Pope Quotes by George Weigel

But ripped out of context, ["Who am I to judge?" phrase] has become an all-purpose filter through which everything else - including…

— George Weigel

I hope ["reanimated the papacy"] means that the new interest in the pope evokes a new interest in the Church's teaching, of…

— George Weigel

The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist…

— 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…

— George Weigel

[Pope] Francis communicates the pastoral embrace of the Church, the breadth and inclusiveness of Catholicism symbolized by the Bernini colonnade around St.…

— George Weigel

[Pope Francis] is 78 years old and knows that his will be a short pontificate.

— George Weigel

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

The pope [Francis] knows that the marriage culture is in crisis throughout the world, and so is the family.

— George Weigel

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a…

— George Weigel

Then [Catholics] owe [pope] the loyalty that is expressed in speaking the truth to him - and that puts a premium on…

— George Weigel

The colossal mess in Vatican finances that [Pope] Francis inherited has been cleaned up, and cleaned out. Real budgeting and accounting procedures…

— George Weigel

[Pope Francis] comes to that conviction [of family crisis] as a pastor, not as Brad Wilcox or Charles Murray. So he wants…

— George Weigel

There's an obvious investment in some media circles in the "narrative" of "the pope who's finally going to get with it."

— George Weigel

The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing Catholics can do for the pope is to pray for him.

— George Weigel

By the same token, the new and stringent Ultramontanism on the Catholic Left - in which even the mildest questions about how…

— George Weigel

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

[Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who…

— George Weigel

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

The most enduring of the false narratives is that the signature phrase of the early pontificate - "Who am I to judge?"…

— George Weigel

The pope [Francis] speaks with great passion about the shame we should all feel when, as he puts it, "a man does…

— George Weigel

More pro-active Vatican communications might be able to do something about all this, but when the Holy See is constantly in the…

— George Weigel

When media "narratives" about [Pope] Francis get set in concrete, and act as filters bending or distorting (or ignoring) aspects of his…

— George Weigel

[Pope Francis] has felt the mercy of God in his own life and wants to share that experience with others.

— 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…

— George Weigel

There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human…

— George Weigel