George Weigel Quotes About Pope

• When media "narratives" about [Pope] Francis get set in concrete, and act as filters bending or distorting (or ignoring) aspects of his vision and his teaching that don't fit the established story line, the Church has a problem.

  George Weigel

  Teaching, Media, Vision

  Fuente: eppc.org

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

  George Weigel

  Culture, World, Pope

  Fuente: eppc.org

• El colosal desorden en las finanzas del Vaticano que heredó [el Papa] Francisco ha sido limpiado, y limpiado. Se han establecido verdaderos procedimientos presupuestarios y contables, así como verdaderos profesionales, no el sobrino de alguien.

  George Weigel

  Real, Nephew, Budgeting

  Fuente: eppc.org

• There's an obvious investment in some media circles in the "narrative" of "the pope who's finally going to get with it."

  George Weigel

  Media, Circles, Narrative

  Fuente: eppc.org

• [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.

  George Weigel

  Real, Challenges, Church

  Fuente: eppc.org

• Una de las cualidades más importantes de un Papa es su juicio sobre las personas: ¿puede reunir a su alrededor a las personas que pueden poner en práctica su visión de lo que la Iglesia debe hacer ahora para cumplir su mandato del Señor?

  George Weigel

  Practice, People, Vision

  Fuente: eppc.org

• [Pope Francis] has felt the mercy of God in his own life and wants to share that experience with others.

  George Weigel

  Mercy Of God, Want, Pope

  Fuente: eppc.org

• Perhaps the dumbest of these story lines is that [Pope] Francis has re-opened conversation and debate in a Church that had been closed and claustrophobic for 35 years under John Paul II and Benedict XVI. I defy anyone who, over the last 35 years, has spent time on the campuses of Notre Dame or Georgetown, or who has read the National Catholic Reporter, or who has gone to a meeting of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, to make that claim without experiencing a twinge of conscience that says, "I should wash my mouth out with soap."

  George Weigel

  Religious, Years, Catholic

  Fuente: eppc.org

• "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.

  George Weigel

  Believe, Paper, Pope

  Fuente: eppc.org

• [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

  Fuente: eppc.org

• [Pope Francis]sees a world in need of the Gospel, and of friendship with Jesus Christ, as an antidote to the self-absorption and loneliness that are eating away at the solidarity of the human community.

  George Weigel

  Jesus, Loneliness, Self

  Fuente: eppc.org

• The most enduring of the false narratives is that the signature phrase of the early pontificate - "Who am I to judge?" - was a matter of the pope jettisoning millennia of Catholic moral teaching. It was not. It was a specific response to the circumstances of a man who had repented and was trying to live an upright life.

  George Weigel

  Teaching, Men, Judging

  Fuente: eppc.org

• I'd also hope that my liberal friends, who find in this pope a critic of what they're pleased to call "culture-warrior" Catholics, will read carefully, and ponder even more carefully, what Pope Francis had to say about the "ideological colonization" implicit in Western decadence when he was giving robust pro-life, pro-family talks in the Philippines.

  George Weigel

  Warrior, Giving, Pro Life

  Fuente: eppc.org

• 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

  Fuente: eppc.org

• [Pope Francis] is 78 years old and knows that his will be a short pontificate.

  George Weigel

  Years, Pope, Knows

  Fuente: eppc.org

• 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

  Fuente: eppc.org

• The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about "center" and "periphery." The "peripheries," for Francis, are all those who have fallen through the cracks of late-modernity and post-modernity - in his native Argentina, because of colossal corruption, political and financial.

  George Weigel

  Vocabulary, Political, Argentina

  Fuente: eppc.org

• Then [Catholics] owe [pope] the loyalty that is expressed in speaking the truth to him - and that puts a premium on knowing whether what you're happy about, on unhappy about, has a basis in fact, or is merely a reflection of the "narrative.

  George Weigel

  Loyalty, Reflection, Knowing

  Fuente: eppc.org

• I hope ["reanimated the papacy"] means that the new interest in the pope evokes a new interest in the Church's teaching, of which the pope is the custodian.

  George Weigel

  Teaching, Mean, Church

  Fuente: eppc.org

• Existe el tropo de una inminente "encíclica sobre el calentamiento global". El Papa está preparando una encíclica sobre la naturaleza y el medio ambiente, incluido el medio ambiente humano (que incluye el imperativo moral de un derecho a la vida culturalmente afirmado y legalmente reconocido desde la concepción hasta la muerte natural). ¿Qué ocurre entonces? Un funcionario vaticano de bajo rango para autopromocionarse concede una entrevista a The Guardian en la que afirma que se trata de una encíclica sobre el calentamiento global -cosa que no podía saber, ya que el documento aún no estaba redactado.

  George Weigel

  Self, Giving, Interviews

  Fuente: eppc.org

• 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

  Fuente: eppc.org

• 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

  Fuente: eppc.org

• [Pope] Francis ought to be taken at his word when he says, as he has often done, that he is a son of the Church who believes and teaches what the Catholic Church believes and teaches.

  George Weigel

  Believe, Taken, Son

  Fuente: eppc.org

• 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

  Fuente: eppc.org

• The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.

  George Weigel

  Might, Way, Add

  Fuente: eppc.org

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