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“I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history”
― Cardinal Francis George

“The Catholic Church also opposes any effort to make it easier to deport children; last week, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Francis E. George, said he had offered facilities in his diocese to house some of the children, and on Monday, bishops in Dallas and Fort Worth called for lawyers to volunteer to represent the children at immigration proceedings. “We have to put our money where our mouth is in this country,” said Kevin Appleby, the director of migration policy for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. “We tell other countries to protect human rights and accept refugees, but when we get a crisis on our border, we don’t know how to respond.” Republicans have rejected calls by Democrats for $2.7 billion in funds to respond to the crisis, demanding changes in immigration law to make it easier to send children back to Central America. And while President Obama says he is open to some changes, many Democrats have opposed them, and Congress is now deadlocked.”
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“God's job, in a sense, is to forgive. That's what he does again and again. You can be free only by acting with God.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“Without God's grace, we can bring evil out of good, and evil out of evil. But if there's good coming out of evil, something greater than us is at work in that.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“When there is hope in the midst of a despair that we ourselves have caused, then something greater than ourselves is at work there, as a cause.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“Religion is a relationship to God, who is an actor. And we'd better try to figure out how he's acting.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“Forgiveness comes in as a condition for being free.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“God's job, in a sense, is to forgive. That's what he does again and again – he offers us mercy, he offers us forgiveness. The risen Christ gave that gift of forgiveness of sins to the apostles right away after his resurrection. God forgives our sins, in the Paschal mystery of Christ.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“When the Church looks at people, they see persons with relationships, and therefore responsibilities, to others.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“God is involved with us, whether we recognize it or not – because God is God.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“If young people get caught early on in habits that enslave — drugs or sexual promiscuity or gangs — they’re never free. Christ died to make us free.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“Those who gather at his cross and by his empty tomb, no matter their nationality, are on the right side of history.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“God sustains the world, in good times and in bad. Catholics, along with many others, believe that only one person has overcome and rescued history: Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of the Virgin Mary, savior of the world and head of his body, the church.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“There is nothing “progressive” about sin, even when it is promoted as “enlightened.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“The Gospel is a message of freedom, and the Catholic way of life trains people in habits that protect that freedom from slavery to various addictions, etc. My own conviction is that we must be completely clear about the Gospel and how it is to change us.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“Christ died to save the entire world. The church’s job is to share Christ’s gifts as widely as possible, among all peoples and nations, without exception. No believer wants the grace gained for everyone by Christ’s death and resurrection to be wasted or ineffective. Within a universal church, there will be not only sinners (all of us) but also those whose commitment varies from time to time and place to place. The parables of the kingdom speak of a church filled with wheat and weeds, not a field purged of anyone who does not understand or accept all the demands of the faith.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“We have to meet all people where they are and consequently search for ways to explain and present the Gospel in all cultures, including our own.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“We are called, by reason of our belief that every person is made in God's image and likeness, to love and respect all of our brothers and sisters, without exception. But we express this respect within the context of our belief in how God has made us and made the world. This belief and this love is the basis of our joy in living the Catholic faith with integrity of mind and heart.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“Feelings are feelings. They’re important. They’re facts. Don’t ignore them, or you’ll suffer. But they’re never the last word.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“At each turning, there’s a call. You may not always see it as a call. Sometimes it’s ‘Why am I doing this now, and what am I doing here?’ But it’s a call. You have to see it as a call, and with God’s grace, you do. .. each time there is a response to a call, you see a different dimension of Christ.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“My introduction to Jesus was as a loving savior whose own suffering rescues me from my sinfulness and therefore enables me to live with him and the Father and the Spirit forever, and all of his friends.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“Christ is not an idea. Christ is a person. But ideas about him are very important. If you have a wrong idea, that stops your growth in God.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“Hope is fragile, and where it flowers everyone has reason to be joyful.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“What is the basis of our being together? It has to be something more than individual rights or individual dreams or individual desires.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“Sin is personal. It's also collective. It touches us all.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“The Church is about true/false, not left/right.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“You can see that despite yourself, you were the instrument of the Holy Spirit unifying his people, the agent of God’s grace for somebody at a particularly difficult moment in their lives.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“Buildings eventually will decay but people are eternal, and if you help somebody or change their life, that lasts forever. That’s the glory of priestly ministry, that what you do has eternal consequences. It’s also our shame if we don’t do it right.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“The worship of God is the most important thing we do.”
― Cardinal Francis George

“I don’t see myself as a warrior. There were times when bishops went to war, but those times are in the past. What we have to do is to preach the truth, in season and out, and do it in such a way that it has a chance to be heard rather than beating people over the head with an idea, even if the idea is true. We’re supposed to preach the truth and I believe we have to do that.”
― Cardinal Francis George