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

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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

“The story wafts across the Atlantic, where it's picked up with glee by Catholic progressives and horror by some Catholic conservatives - and the battle of the blogs is on, full blast. No one bothers to ask whether there's any basis in fact for the assertion that this is going to be a "global-warming encyclical."”

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Author:George Weigel

“When climate change gets some attention in a 100-page document, the most important parts of which will have to do with the theology of stewardship and the theology of "human ecology," it's almost certainly going to be rapturously embraced, or bitterly opposed, as a "global-warming encyclical," despite the evidence that it's much more broadly gauged than that.”

Humans Important Attention Pages Evidence Climate Climate Change Theology Despite Global Warming Documents Ecology Stewardship

Author:George Weigel

“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.”

Might Able Games Communication Holy Active Pope Really Mean

Author:George Weigel

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

Knows World Needs Pastor

Author:George Weigel

“[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.”

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Author:George Weigel

“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.”

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Author:George Weigel

“The only future is intentional Catholicism, evangelical Catholicism.”

Catholicism Evangelical

Author: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.”

World Today Church Focus Missions Catholicism Campus Church Today

Author:George Weigel

“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.”

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Author:George Weigel

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