Believe Quote by 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.”

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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 post-modernity - in his native Argentina, because of colossal corruption, political and financial.

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

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