The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types. George Weigel More Quotes by George Weigel More Quotes From George Weigel The Church in the United States turned a corner about three decades ago, and the idea that we're going back to the incoherence of the late Sixties and Seventies is, frankly, silly. Let's have a little faith in what the Holy Spirit has done among us these past 35 years. George Weigel silly past years Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto. George Weigel elderly saint italian