George Weigel Quotes

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

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  Democracy, Generations, Live Free

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

  George Weigel

  Jobs, Catholic, Impossible

  Source: eppc.org

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• Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

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  Worst Enemy, Moral, Truth Is

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• In the Church the transformative power of the Eucharist is experienced through the dignified celebration of Holy Mass, and people are empowered for mission because of that.

  George Weigel

  People, Church, Celebration

  Source: eppc.org

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• The real challenge the rich young man faced was not just giving up his possessions, but giving up himself. The last command Jesus says ("Come, follow me") is the one that we so often overlook and think that he must have left Jesus simply because he liked his green bills.

  George Weigel

  Jesus, Giving Up, Real

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• The world needs a pastor, whether it knows it or not.

  George Weigel

  Needs, World, Pastor

  Source: eppc.org

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• In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

  George Weigel

  Issues, Rights, Views

  George Weigel (2002). “The Truth of Catholicism: Ten Controversies Explored”, p.164, Gracewing Publishing

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• The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in the fullest meaning of human freedom.

  George Weigel

  Medicine, Soul, Church

  Source: eppc.org

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• The Guardian,[is] one of the most consistently anti-Catholic newspapers in the world.

  George Weigel

  Catholic, World, Guardian

  Source: eppc.org

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• Be the Church - that is, be an evangelical movement that tells the world of God's passionate love for humanity. That, not institutional maintenance, is what the Church is for. When the Church is that, and does that, it flourishes.

  George Weigel

  Faith, Inspiration, Humanity

  "Vatican II, 40 Years Later: 'Gaudium et Spes'". ZENIT Interview, zenit.org. April 10, 2003.

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• History is driven, over the long haul, by culture - by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies deem to be true and good, and by the expressions they give to those convictions in language, literature, and the arts; by what individuals and societies are willing to stake their lives on.

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  Art, Men, Expression

  George Weigel (2005). “The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God”, p.30, Gracewing Publishing

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• Vital parishes built on the Bible and the sacraments, committed to evangelizing their neighborhoods, will continue to flourish. The poor will be served, the sick healed, and the dying comforted. None of that is going to change, and I'd wager that it's going to get better.

  George Weigel

  Sick, Get Better, Dying

  Source: eppc.org

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• Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.

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  Ideas, Bad Ideas, Consequence

  George Weigel (2015). “Letters to a Young Catholic”, p.46, Basic Books

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• 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.

  George Weigel

  Catholic, Pope, Affront

  Source: eppc.org

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• [Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.

  George Weigel

  Jesus, Prayer, Speak

  Source: eppc.org

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• [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.

  George Weigel

  Powerful, Past, Squares

  Source: eppc.org

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• One of the most important qualities in a pope is his judgment of people - can he get around him the people who can put into practice his vision of what the Church must be doing now to fulfill its mandate from the Lord.

  George Weigel

  Practice, People, Vision

  Source: eppc.org

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• A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

  George Weigel

  Bombs, Dramatic, Theological

  George Weigel (2009). “Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II”, p.343, Zondervan

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• The most important appointment Pope Francis has made is the appointment of the Australian cardinal, George Pell, as the Vatican's financial overseer.

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  Important, Financial, Pope

  Source: eppc.org

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• The "encounter" with the people on the peripheries is intended to draw them into the circle of common care and concern - that call to encounter is, to use a favorite world of John Paul II's, a call to solidarity. And that means, it seems to me, aggressive Catholic efforts to empower the poor - and a profound Catholic challenge to all those cultural forces that are eroding stable families, which are the elementary schools where we learn to take responsibility for our lives, which is the highest exercise of freedom.

  George Weigel

  School, Mean, Responsibility

  Source: eppc.org

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• The pope [Francis] speaks with great passion about the shame we should all feel when, as he puts it, "a man does not have the dignity of earning bread for his family," but is turned into a peripheral person, a welfare client, a dependent.

  George Weigel

  Passion, Men, Doe

  Source: eppc.org

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• The colossal mess in Vatican finances that [Pope] Francis inherited has been cleaned up, and cleaned out. Real budgeting and accounting procedures are in place; so are real professionals, not somebody's nephew.

  George Weigel

  Real, Nephew, Budgeting

  Source: eppc.org

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• More pro-active Vatican communications might be able to do something about all this, but when the Holy See is constantly in the mode of, "No, what the pope really meant was . . . ," the game has already been largely forfeited.

  George Weigel

  Communication, Games, Might

  Source: eppc.org

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• 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.

  George Weigel

  Mean, Judging, Filters

  Source: eppc.org

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• Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a new prescription for your glasses - or with a new set of ideological filters.

  George Weigel

  Glasses, Optimism, Filters

  George Weigel (2015). “Letters to a Young Catholic”, p.100, Basic Books

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