[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 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… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The pope [Francis] knows that the marriage culture is in crisis throughout the world, and so is the family. — George Weigel Copy Share Image
That's what the liveliest parts of the world Church today - ranging from the booming Church in Africa to FOCUS missionaries on… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The Guardian,[is] one of the most consistently anti-Catholic newspapers in the world. — 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
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
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