"Theology is the business—the privileged business—of reflecting through the arts of human intelligence on the truths that God has revealed, truths of which the Church’s teaching authority is the custodian."
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George Weigel, biographer of Pope John Paul II, Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church (p. 41). Basic Books. (2013)
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