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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.”

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George Weigel

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

Knows World Culture Crisis Pope

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“[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.”

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“"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

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