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George Weigel (born 1951) is an American author, political analyst, and social activist. He currently serves as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Weigel was the Founding President of the James Madison Foundation. He is the author of the best-selling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope and Tranquillitas Ordinis: The Present Failure and Future Promise of American Catholic Thought on War and Peace.

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[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.

Hours, Jesus, Prayer, Speak, Speaks

What I hope my liberal friends (and I have more than a few) take from this pontificate is that mercy and truth are never separable in Catholic pastoral life.

Catholic, Mercy, Hope, Life

No one who reads and reveres the New Testament should doubt for a second that the pious poor and marginalized have something to teach all of us - including German theologian-bishops - about the truth of the Gospel and the mysteries of the Kingdom of God.

Bishops, Doubt, Kingdom, Kingdoms, Pious, Testament

[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.

Jesus, Loneliness, Self, Antidote, Eating

The impact remains to be seen; I don't think we can measure the enduring impact of John Paul II, for example, for another hundred, perhaps two hundred, years.

Example, Impact, Remains, Thinking, Years

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.

Argentina, Center, Cracks, Political, Takes, Vocabulary

"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, Pope, Read, Start

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

Knows, Old, Pope, Years

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality. . . it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

Rights, Views, Issues, Arguably, View, Time

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

Knows, Needs, Pastor, World

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.

Die, Long Ago, Order, Orthodox, Religious, Women

The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in the fullest meaning of human freedom.

Church, Medicine, Offers, Soul, Truth

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. "

Catholic, Battle, Glee, Fact, Picked, Progressives

The real challenge the rich young man faced was not just giving up his possessions, but giving up himself. The last command Jesus says ("Come, follow me") is the one that we so often overlook and think that he must have left Jesus simply because he liked his green bills.

Jesus, Giving Up, Real, Faced, Says

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.

Heart, Take, Thirty, Two, Years

[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.

Believe, Taken, Son, Believes, Church

The most important appointment Pope Francis has made is the appointment of the Australian cardinal, George Pell, as the Vatican's financial overseer.

Financial, George, Important, Overseer, Pope

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.

Communication, Games, Might, Forfeited, Pope, Meant

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

Catholic, World, Guardian, Consistently, Newspapers

One of the most important qualities in a pope is his judgment of people - can he get around him the people who can put into practice his vision of what the Church must be doing now to fulfill its mandate from the Lord.

Practice, People, Vision, Mandate, Pope

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