Asked about Donald Trump, [Pope] Francis said a person who thinks only about building walls and not building bridges is not Christian, a remark you might remember that Trump described as disgraceful.

The Vatican has always had a core of diplomats for centuries. It has ambassadors in 180 countries and always played a kind of behind-the-scene role in many world issues.

Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas.

Father Jude Nnorom also criticized his church leaders, saying the simple lifestyle followed by Pope Francis should challenge African bishops to ask themselves.

Father Jude Nnorom says he hopes the pope's travels in Africa will help end all the wars ravaging the continent.

[Pope Francis] symbolically took the migrant south-north route to the United States by going to Cuidad Juarez on the border with Texas, and there he spoke of the human dignity of immigrants.

[Pope Francis] lashed out against what he called malevolent resistance to his reforms.

I think [Pope] Francis intends to forge ahead with his reform agenda.

[Pope Francis] did something that both his two predecessors had failed to do - John Paul II and Benedict. Francis met with the Russian patriarch of the Orthodox Church.

We have a pope [Francis] who's very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there's no doubt he's going to continue to face resistance from conservatives inside the church.

The process of mind is mechanical, and the data of the thoughts and imagination can be changed, by changing the experiences and impressions of life.

This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone, or to recreate it.

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican

I'd like to do a reality show with four white people...who are dropped off in a really bad black neighborhood. And the show would be called...Cracker Hunt.