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

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.

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.

4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITYWhen you lose reasoning you forget humanity, When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.[222] – 4

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

I eat a lot of whole grains for breakfast, a lot of dried fruit. And my big thing is pasta. I do a lot of simple pasta, with great ingredients.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.

It is sad to be an exception. But not to be one is even sadder.

Inspiration comes from the act of writing.

Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.