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I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

- Donald Wuerl
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People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.

People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.

When I was a young priest in the 1960s and 1970s, there was much experimentation and confusion in the Church. Teachers and clergy were encouraged to communicate an experience of God's love, but to do it without reference to the Creed, the sacraments, or the tradition.

One of the challenges of secularism is that it's not something outside us. In too many instances, secularism has so permeated the church that sometimes it's the frame of reference even for very good people, people who have a strong allegiance to the church.

Those people who think they know the Gospel, and it doesn't have any meaning for them, they're the people we have to find a way to touch, to invite once again to the embrace of Christ.

At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be engaging our people much more in understanding the Word of God... the Word of God reflected in the traditional teaching of the church, the Word of God reflected in the scriptures, is as much a part of their lives as anything else.

The freedom to be able to offer education, human services, and health care in accordance with our own identity as a church should not be denied us simply because there may be the perception of a political majority who favors a new understanding of the American tradition of pluralism.

God's revelation has always been in deeds. God's interventions in history have always been in deeds, in actions. Then there are those who interpret the actions, and then there are those who write down the interpretations of the actions.

Our God who created all of us is the God who calls all of us to care for one another. I think that's going to be one of the big, big challenges of the future, helping refocus on the needs of others.

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I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.