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A. Good crowd down here today, and joining us on our set is George Weigel who is the author of in this book hes the author of several books, but this is his most recent, evangelical catholicism. Mr. Weigel, what is evangelical catholicism . Guest its a catholicism thats being born in the 21st century out of the 125year reform history reform period in the history of the church. It was given, i think, a definitive form by Pope John Paul ii and Pope Benedict vxi. In pope francis youre seeing an expression of this new missionary thrust in the church, a church that no longer can count on the culture to make its proposal for it. It has to make its proposal on its own. Host what does that mean . Guest it means that the culture in which i grew up 55 years ago in baltimore helped transmit the thing. That is not the case anymore. Yo ....
On booktv on cspan 2. Good afternoon. I am so glad to see all of you here on this Beautiful Day to join a National Book festival. Mine is in a Community Affairs at wells fargo for the midatlantic region. And so want to be here representing wells fargo is both an avid reader myself. I really dont remember a time in my life when i wasnt an avid reader. I just loved reading. I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina and had the benefit of the library account be an adjacent to backyard. But at the library of congress obviously, but its a wonderful asset to the community. Around the corner to parents to pick out books and am feeling very, very grown up when i got to go by myself to check out books myself. Ive attended here today come you must all know books can t ....