“We're used to institutional-maintenance Catholicism, in which the institution ticks along by its own inertia and people are "born" into the Church. Francis knows that is over and done with: "Kept" Catholicism, whether "kept" by legal establishment or by cultural habit, has no future.” PeopleKnowsDoneUsedBornChurchHabitInstitutionsCatholicismEstablishmentMaintenanceInertiaTick Author:George Weigel
“The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types.” PeopleBehindsTypeCatholicCurvesMaintenance Author:George Weigel
“The Germans now seem the primary example of this [institutional-maintenance type] - which is another reason to scratch the head at their seeming determination to force the whole Church to adopt the Catholic Lite approach that has, in a bizarre inversion, emptied German churches of congregants while vastly expanding the German Church's bureaucracies.” ReasonWholeSeemsForceChurchExampleTypeApproachDeterminationCatholicPrimariesBureaucracyBizarreExpandingScratchesSeemingMaintenanceInversions Author:George Weigel
“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.” WorldDoeInspirationFaithHumanityChurchMovementPassionateChristian InspirationalMaintenanceEvangelicalPassionate LoveLove For Humanity Author:George Weigel
