Home / Quotes / Quote by George Weigel

Quote by George Weigel

“That's what the liveliest parts of the world Church today - ranging from the booming Church in Africa to FOCUS missionaries on American campuses - are living: a Catholicism that has discovered that it doesn't have a mission, it is a mission.”

Quote by George Weigel

Author

George Weigel, born in 1951, is an American author whose works primarily focus on politics, religion, and ideas, particularly known for his research on the Catholic Church. more

You May Also Like

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

People Behinds Type Catholic Curves Maintenance

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.”

Reason Whole Seems Force Church Example Type Approach Determination Catholic Primaries Bureaucracy Bizarre Expanding Scratches Seeming Maintenance Inversions

Author:George Weigel

“The pope [Francis] knows that the marriage culture is in crisis throughout the world, and so is the family.”

Knows World Culture Crisis Pope

Author:George Weigel

“[Pope Francis] comes to that conviction [of family crisis] as a pastor, not as Brad Wilcox or Charles Murray. So he wants to challenge the Church to find pastoral responses to that crisis that meet real human needs.”

Want Needs Humans Real Challenges Church Crisis Response Conviction Pope Pastor Human Needs Brad Real Human

Author: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.”

Believe Paper Don't Believe Pope Papers

Author: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. The dramatic reform of seminaries continues. The priests and bishops who take their pastoral model from John Paul II will continue to do so, perhaps learning a lesson or two from Francis along the way - and they'll be the overwhelming majority of the Church's ordained ministers ten, twenty, thirty years from now.”

“The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest of Catholic Lite, will continue to die.”

Long Order Dies Grows Religious Dying Catholic Orthodox Long Ago

Author:George Weigel

“Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.”

Want Pursue Theologian Elders

Author:George Weigel

“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.”

Poor Dying Built Sick Committed Get Better Neighborhood Sacraments Healed Parish Wagers

Author:George Weigel

“The Church in the United States turned a corner about three decades ago, and the idea that we're going back to the incoherence of the late Sixties and Seventies is, frankly, silly. Let's have a little faith in what the Holy Spirit has done among us these past 35 years.”

Years Littles Ideas States Done Past Spirit Three Church United United States Holy Late Corners Decades Silly Holy Spirit Sixty Seventies Little Faith Incoherence Have A Little Faith

Author:George Weigel