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Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church Hardcover – February 5, 2013

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The Catholic Church is on the threshold of a bold new era in its two-thousand year history. As the curtain comes down on the Church defined by the 16th-century Counter-Reformation, the curtain is rising on the Evangelical Catholicism of the third millennium: a way of being Catholic that comes from over a century of Catholic reform; a mission-centered renewal honed by the Second Vatican Council and given compelling expression by Blessed John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.

The Gospel-centered Evangelical Catholicism of the future will send all the people of the Church into mission territory every day—a territory increasingly defined in the West by spiritual boredom and aggressive secularism. Confronting both these cultural challenges and the shadows cast by recent Catholic history, Evangelical Catholicism unapologetically proclaims the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the truth of the world. It also molds disciples who witness to faith, hope, and love by the quality of their lives and the nobility of their aspirations. Thus the Catholicism of the 21st–century and beyond will be a culture-forming counterculture, offering all men and women of good will a deeply humane alternative to the soul-stifling self-absorption of postmodernity.

Drawing on thirty years of experience throughout the Catholic world, from its humblest parishes to its highest levels of authority, George Weigel proposes a deepening of faith-based and mission-driven Catholic reform that touches every facet of Catholic life—from the episcopate and the papacy to the priesthood and the consecrated life; from the renewal of the lay vocation in the world to the redefinition of the Church's engagement with public life; from the liturgy to the Church's intellectual life. Lay Catholics and clergy alike should welcome the challenge of this unique moment in the Church's history, Weigel urges. Mediocrity is not an option, and all Catholics, no matter what their station in life, are called to live the evangelical vocation into which they were baptized: without compromise, but with the joy, courage, and confidence that comes from living this side of the Resurrection.

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Mary Eberstadt, author of Adam and Eve after the Pill and The Loser Letters
“Evangelical Catholicism is a remarkable intellectual and spiritual achievement, even by George Weigel's dauntingly high standards. It is nothing less than a blueprint for the re-evangelization of the West and the re-invigoration of the rest of the world.”

John L. Allen Jr., Senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter and author of The Future Church: How Ten Trends are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church
“A laudable hunger to relight the Church's missionary fires is the core of Evangelical Catholicism, but good intentions need practical blueprints if they're going to work. George Weigel has gotten that conversation started in his typically lucid, provocative fashion, and we are all in his debt.”

Don J. Briel, Koch Chair in Catholic Studies, University of Saint Thomas
“A timely, accessible and unusually insightful work.”

George Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney
“Weigel at his astringent and prophetic best.”

Wall Street Journal
“A learned and lucid commentator on Catholicism… [Weigel] brings a keenly developed sense of the workings of the church to his analysis. But Evangelical Catholicism is a call to arms. Though written long before Benedict made his surprise announcement, the book is nonetheless a timely guide to the issues that the cardinals in conclave—and the next pope—must confront…. Evangelical Catholicism may provide a desperately needed vision of the future of the church, imbued with the extraordinary hope that has always been at the heart of the Catholic faith.”

The Weekly Standard
“Weigel at his best, situating our present moment within the context of the last century, and laying out an agenda for Catholic reform and mission in the future….This book deserves to be read by any serious thinking Christian.”

National Review
“A serious and acute work…. Weigel's ability to combine the spiritual insights of a believer with the dispassionate analysis of a historian makes Evangelical Catholicism valuable for Catholics and non-Catholics, of all political persuasions, who care about the Church's future.”

The Economist
"An elegantly written manifesto."

National Catholic Register
“[Weigel is] our greatest observer of the global Catholic Church…If I could gain entrance into the conclave, I would smuggle in enough copies of Evangelical Catholicism to place one on the chair of each elector, in hopes that they would adopt this masterpiece of Catholic history and thought as a possible guide for the Church's mission in the centuries ahead.”

Kirkus
“A call for pride, sincerity and depth in Catholic life and community…. The bulk of Weigel's book examines how this new Catholicism can be applied to the episcopate, priesthood, liturgy, laity, etc. The author makes many important points, and his call toward a deeper spirituality and sense of mission in Catholic life is laudable.”

Carl A. Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus
“A rare book that can transform culture and communities from the inside out, beginning with the humble premise of evangelization: to proclaim—in word and deed—the good news of Jesus Christ. No stone is unturned, no promise or issue within the Church and her members is ignored in this excellent, well-thought-out guide for reform-based evangelization.”

Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York
“This sparkling read puts all the old Church-labels—liberal vs. conservative, progressive vs. traditionalist, pre- vs. post-Vatican II—in the shredder. Now there is only one valid adjective for all of us: evangelical! Simply put, this means we take our baptismal promises with the utmost seriousness. Like the Samaritan woman, we've met a man—Jesus—who has changed our lives.”

Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia
“George Weigel has been the leading diarist of authentic Catholic renewal—its progress, detours, personalities, and hopes—for 30 years. In Evangelical Catholicism he turns his extraordinary skills to the needs of the Church in the coming decades, calling us back to the missionary vocation we received at baptism and offering us a road map to faithful, vigorous Church reform. Rich in its vision, engaging in style, on target in its counsel and invaluable for anyone trying to understand the Church and her challenges in the 21st Century, this book should not be missed.”

About the Author

George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center, is one of the world's leading authorities on the Catholic Church. The author of more than twenty books, including the world-renowned, two-volume biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope and The End and the Beginning, Weigel lives in North Bethesda, Maryland.

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Publisher : Basic Books; 1st edition (February 5, 2013)
Language: : English
Hardcover : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 0465027687
ISBN-13 : 978-0465027682
Item Weight : 1.19 pounds
Dimensions : 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches

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James D. Witt

Well-written book that defines the problem but comes up short on solutions.

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2017

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The reviews of EVANGELICAL CATHOLICISM reflect the precarious position that Weigel, or any author, assumes in taking on the topic of reform in the church. Progressive Catholics will assert that he is too tradition-bound, while traditionalists will argue that his proposed reforms go too far. Reasonable support can be made for both positions, and this is precisely the nature of Catholicism, particularly in North America, in the early 21st century. Weigel does an extraordinarily good job of describing the state of American Catholicism fifty years post-Vatican II, and he identifies the underlying cultural dissonance between Counter Reformation Catholicism and postmodern culture in the west. If US Bishops cannot reach consensus on priority areas for reform, however, it is hard to see how they could possibly agree on how to get there. Unless and until some consensus emerges among the Bishops, most of Weigel's proposed reforms will be moot.

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A Must-Read on "Church"!

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2015

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I am currently reading this as an audiobook. Often I buy a hardcover like this so that I can refer back to the text, if I want to read something over a few times or dwell on it (hard to do when the music player is running). I am about one-third into the book by now (I'll update as necessary!). However, right from the very first paragraphs to which I listened, was I impressed by the quality of Weigel's scholarship, knowledge, and his ability to teach "Church" and what that is! He knows the history. He refers to the official teaching. He knows the obstacles, like the ongoing tension that exists between the conservatives and progressives that seemingly have set up what looks like permanent camps from which they operate and produce their monologues. Actually, he sees things like this more as distractions or insignificant because they do not identify with the Church as it sees Itself. He masterfully cuts between these camps and other obstacles and brings forth an image of the Church that has permeated the centuries and can be readily seen now. I think it would be hard for anyone to read this seriously and not come to a picture of the Church that is at once beautiful, life-saving, wholesome, and Divine. That is not something easy to do by oneself in this day and age. This book lays a foundation for it. This does not preclude the need to reform. In fact, Weigel insists on it. It's part of the subtitle. We know all too well there's great need of that. Yet, he gives us the schema that we can follow. It's based on some basic principles: if this is something Divinely revealed, then it is True. If it is True then it means becoming a part of the Church as Mission and living out the Gospel as Jesus gave it to us. There's no middle-ground. If the Church can't claim this, then Jesus was the biggest liar to have lived on this earth.

Weigel traces where we and the Church are at this current time. Pope Francis was not elected when he wrote this. However, he forecasted some of what we could expect of the man who would be Pope Benedict XVI's successor. He traces who that Pope will be back to foundations that we set into place by Pope Leo XIII who came to office in 1878, one hundred years before Pope John Paul II. I was so impressed by this because I was able to see this partially when Francis became Pope and in writing a review for his The Church of Mercy , said this:

*** The phenomenon of Pope Francis did not occur in a vacuum. It is a matter of men who became pope who would then stand on the shoulders of their predecessors. For this review, we need not go back any further than Pope John XXIII who began what he called the "aggiornamento"--the "breath of fresh air" that the Church needed; literally, the "modernization" that was called for; which began the process of the calling of the Second Vatican Council, which came after his death. It was during the papacy of Pope Paul VI that the Council actually happened. It was from there that the modern teaching on "evangelization" sprung from the document Evangelii Nuntiandi / On Evangelization in the Modern World . It was there that the Church began the process which first resembles the Apostles staying fearfully in the Upper Room, but after receiving and being moved by the Holy Spirit went into the streets to proclaim the Good News, after which numbers of people were being added daily to the small Church at its beginning.

*** It was Pope John Paul II who oversaw much of the implementation of the Council, and the recommendations of its many the Documents: Constitutions, Decrees, Declarations and More Post-Conciliar Documents , who coined the term "New Evangelization" as the direction of the Church must travel. Although Pope John XXIII was the one who brought the Church into the spotlight of the modern media, Pope John Paul II solidified the Church's use of the media as part of its mission and the transmission of the Good News. With this, and being the most travelled pope in history, he succeeded in bringing the Church and the Gospel to the ends of the earth. Pope Benedict XVI followed much in the same suit, although not as extensively. Although much good was done and much was accomplished in these efforts, this might only have been groundwork, preparing the way for the papacy of Pope Francis.

*** From Day 1, he was able to capture the hearts and the minds of the people of the world through the deliberate use he made of the media, not only TV, but the Internet and things like Facebook and Twitter. Although implementation might be considered a thing of the past, Pope Francis has an approach that we can say is "where the rubber meets the road" or better, "where the Gospel meets the road" in search of the Lost Sheep. He shows us how to live the "aggiornamento" that was begun by Pope John XXIII. For example, last week at the annual Chrism Mass at which the Holy Oils are blessed, he told priests, "If you don't go out from yourself, the holy oil grows rancid and the anointing cannot be fruitful. Going out from ourselves presupposes self-denial; it means poverty." He challenges the members of the Church at every level in this way.

George Weigel speaks as we hear Pope Francis speaking, "about the message and the revolutionary nature of the Gospel with its power to transform, that can produce genuine joy, hope, and true courage with which to face obstacles." As stated in the Preface of this recent book The Church of Mercy , the pope's aim "is to let people understand that an authentic Christianity, faithful to the spirit of the Gospel, is not achievable if the people in Christian communities have a weary and half-asleep faith, without any thrill of excitement, a faith shut up within the walls of their hearts or church buildings. This is the danger that might materialise if the Church grows old and accustomed to caring only about itself rather than flinging open its doors and facing the challenges of the world." Or, to look at this from the other side of the coin, as Weigel quotes Karl Rahner, SJ in the front of the book, "Only when the message of the living God is preached in the churches with all the power of the Spirit, will the impression disappear that the Church is merely an odd relic from the age of a society doomed to die."

Weigel traces the roots of what we are witnessing back almost 140 years. I think that is very encouraging. Sometimes we wonder what God has been doing all of this time. If the Church is a Divine Institution, then God most certainly must have been at work. Weigel gives us an insight into what the Spirit has been doing, where it was leading, and how that applies to our current day Church, which sometimes does look very good and does not impress the world. Pope Francis tells us, it doesn't matter if the Church sometimes fails on the way. This is why he keeps sending out warnings that heavy-handedness, intransigence, hypocrisy and other shortcomings need to be abolished because they undermine Christian credibility. He is determined to reform and renew the Church so that it becomes better equipped to pursue its goals, with all that that involves," or maybe, what it simply involves. He says it's Mercy! Anyway you look at it, Weigel says it comes from the vision that Pope Leo began implementing decades ago.

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Burgess Laughlin

Clear recommendations for reforming the whole Catholic movement, for one purpose: to evangelize the world

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2013

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First, to evaluate my notes below, you need to know my own viewpoint. My worldview is a philosophy of reason, not religion. My viewpoint shows up in my two books. The first is The Aristotle Adventure: A Guide to the Greek, Arabic, & Latin Scholars Who Transmitted Aristotle's Logic to the Renaissance . The second is The Power and the Glory: The Key Ideas and Crusading Lives of Eight Debaters of Reason vs. Faith . I am also collecting notes on my weblog, _The Main Event_, for my next book, a look at the war between reason and mysticism in the USA in our time.

George Weigel is a Catholic intellectual here writing to Catholics about Catholics. He writes clearly. He writes instructively, often explaining Catholic terms briefly because he knows that even many Catholics are not sure of the meaning of some terms. He overflows with ideas that are "radical," that is, he goes to the root (_radix_ in Latin) of problems, both historically and theologically. For example, he argues throughout the book that two values must guide the Catholic movement (the Church): the truths of Jesus and the mission Jesus gave to his followers, which is to go tell (evangelize) the whole world.

Weigel instructs as well as recommends. He explains clearly the major phases of recent Catholic history. He makes intelligible, for example, the great shift in the Church's relationship with the world after the split with Protestants in the 1500s, and then again in the late 1800s, as the Church began grappling with the modern (and postmodern) world.

Weigel is systematic and comprehensive. He examines every level and every area of the Church: popes, the curia, the cardinals, bishops, priests, consecrated Catholics (nuns, monks, etc.), and laymen in all their many activities in life. This is part of what "deep" means in the title; the other part of "deep" is Weigel's point that spreading the truths that Jesus revealed in the Bible is the guiding star for the Catholic movement.

One caution: secular readers trying to learn about today's Catholicism can benefit from this book but they should have a Catholic dictionary at hand. Though Weigel usually explains special terms briefly, fuller explanations will help some readers--including novice Catholics.

Do not expect a "fast read." Though the book is clearly written, readers--whether Catholics or not--need to read at a slow pace to absorb and integrate Weigel's many insights.

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J.E. Traller

I really like his treatment of what he calls Catholic Antiquarianism

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2015

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In my opinion, every practicing Catholic and every single member of the clergy should read this book and take time thinking about it. George Weigel knows the issues in the Church and he knows his history. His suggestions on what needs to be changed and how it ought to be changed show how in touch he is with life at the parish level. I really like his treatment of what he calls Catholic Antiquarianism, which embraces the kinds of Catholics who think that Pius X was the last legitimate Pope. His treatment of the issues surrounding that extreme and the other end of the Catholic spectrum are fair and well-thought out. But of course, it's hard to please those who reside on the extremes. The vast majority of literate Catholics should enjoy this book and talk about it together after Mass, at work, and at home.

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Binker 67

Be Catholic in the true sense of the word. ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 25, 2015

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Be Catholic in the true sense of the word.

I think that's what Weigel is asking us to be.
Suspend all partisanship. Embrace the truth of the Faith within what the Church teaches and allows and go out into the World and live the Faith in the everyday.
It's the way to to effectively evangelise.

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Mrs. Lois Hobbs

Weigel always thought provoking

Reviewed in Canada on November 4, 2013

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I liked this book enormously, as it helped ground me in the Faith while I'm on the front lines in our secular society. Am also a big fan of Weigel's, and read everything I can. Even if you don't agree with him, he makes you think. I believe he's a great gift to the Church because of it.

jlboone

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on November 3, 2017

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Great book.

Love it!

Reviewed in France on April 7, 2013

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Livre très intéressant sur le catholicisme dans le monde actuel. A lire et relire....A son origine (entre autres) quelques conférences en argentine...

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Dianne Wood

This book is amazing!

Reviewed in Canada on May 3, 2013

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This books seems to be very prophetic. Even though it was published just before our dear Pope Benedict's abdication it fits in perfectly with what has been happening. This is a must read for all Catholics especially in this year of faith. Let's all get out acts together and let this be our guide on what to do. I could not put it down had to just keep reading it.

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