A Quote by George Weigel

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

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George Weigel
American - Author
Born: 1951

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