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

“This life of ours . . . is a gift from God. It is not of our choosing. It comes to us by his choice.…

— 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

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights…

— 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

What I hope my liberal friends (and I have more than a few) take from this pontificate is that mercy and truth…

— George Weigel

The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types.

— 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

Be the Church - that is, be an evangelical movement that tells the world of God's passionate love for humanity. That, not…

— George Weigel

Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

— 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

The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest…

— George Weigel

These [conservative] people, if they're Americans, look back on the last 35 years of our ecclesial experience and take heart from that.…

— George Weigel

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

— George Weigel

“Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".”

— 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

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

— 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

That's what the liveliest parts of the world Church today - ranging from the booming Church in Africa to FOCUS missionaries on…

— George Weigel

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.

— George Weigel

As a friend at a major American newspaper said to me when I complained about this tendency in his own paper, "You…

— George Weigel

In the Vatican, if you don't get something new done quickly you may not get it done at all.

— George Weigel

History is driven, over the long haul, by culture - by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies…

— George Weigel

“By the time the draft constitution for the expanded European Union was finished and ready to be submitted for ratification by the…

— George Weigel