A Quote by George Weigel

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

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George Weigel
American - Author
Born: 1951

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Craig Ferguson

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Sylvia Poggioli

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Eugene Kennedy

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Richard Dawkins

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Juan Pablo Di Pace

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Lidia Bastianich

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