{"id":8182,"date":"2013-03-20T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/?p=8182"},"modified":"2013-03-20T14:10:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T13:10:57","slug":"george-weigel-skriver-om-pave-frans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/2013\/03\/george-weigel-skriver-om-pave-frans\/","title":{"rendered":"George Weigel skriver om pave Frans"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Weigel er ikke hvem som helst (les om ham p\u00e5 Wikipedia<\/a> , bl.a. om alle b\u00f8kene han har skrevet), og han skriver i dag p\u00e5 FirstThings<\/a> om pave Frans, i stor grad ut fra et m\u00f8te han hadde med ham i Argentina for et knapt \u00e5r siden – for \u00e5 finne materiale til sin siste bok, «Evangeliske katolikker<\/a>«. Han skriver sv\u00e6rt positivt om den nye paven, bl.a.:<\/p>\n

What kind of man is (pope Francis)? Some impressions from an hour\u2019s conversation last May:<\/p>\n

A man of God.<\/strong>The new pope struck me then as someone who lived from the inside out: a man whose rich interior life was the basis of his public life; a leader whose decisions grew from prayer and discernment, not calculation.<\/p>\n

A man of profound humility.<\/strong> I had long been interested in getting to know then-Cardinal Bergoglio, but I had the hardest time getting him to talk about his own life and experiences. I didn\u2019t detect shyness in this, or false modesty, but a true evangelical humility. Pope Francis will not have the effervescence of a John Paul II; but like the Polish pope who created him cardinal, Jorge Bergoglio has spent his life saying, not \u201cLook at me,\u201d but rather, \u201cLook to Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

A man of keen and realistic intelligence.<\/strong> Pope Francis is not the university professor that John Paul II and Benedict XVI had been in their pre-papal lives. And while that model of preparing for the papacy served the Church well for thirty-five years, it\u2019s not the only possible model. Now, rather than a professor who learned how to be a pastor, the Church has been given a pastor who has long experience of being a pastor.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, I was struck last May by Bergoglio\u2019s sharp mind, his familiarity with issues throughout the world Church, and his prudence in judging people and situations. He was, for example, completely realistic and lucid about the Church\u2019s situation in Latin America. …<\/p>\n

A man of the New Evangelization.<\/strong> The new pope played a significant role in shaping the Latin American bishops\u2019 2007 \u201cAparecida Document,\u201d which embraced the New Evangelization and put it at the center of the Church\u2019s life. In our conversation, …<\/p>\n

A man of reform. <\/strong>We spoke of the Latin American edition of my book The Courage To Be Catholic, for which he thanked me. And in discussing Vatican affairs, then-Cardinal Bergoglio displayed a shrewd, but not cynical, grasp of just what was wrong with the Church\u2019s central bureaucratic machinery, and why. …<\/p>\n

A man of freedom rightly understood.<\/strong> In addition to Pope Francis\u2019 lifetime commitment to the poor I\u2019d also note his commitment to human rights and democracy, both of which are under severe pressure in Argentina. The new pope knows the fragility of democratic self-governance, and will work to shore up democracy\u2019s eroding moral-cultural foundations throughout the West.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Weigel er ikke hvem som helst (les om ham p\u00e5 Wikipedia , bl.a. om alle b\u00f8kene han har skrevet), og han skriver i dag p\u00e5 FirstThings om pave Frans, i stor grad ut fra et m\u00f8te han hadde med ham i Argentina for et knapt \u00e5r siden – for \u00e5 finne materiale til sin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-katolsk","category-paven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8182"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8189,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8182\/revisions\/8189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}