Life Quote by Anthea Butler

In Pope Francis's 'Amoris Laetitia' (The Joy of Love), an apostolic exhortation on Catholic family life, he does not make earth-shattering doctrinal changes with…

— Anthea Butler

'Amoris Latetia' reiterates that Pope Francis is interested in changing both the tone and reception of people and families in the church to a…

— Anthea Butler

One of the topics that [Pope Francis] wants to raise, according to many Vatican analysts, is given the shortage of - worldwide shortage of…

— Sylvia Poggioli

The pope [Francis] knows that the marriage culture is in crisis throughout the world, and so is the family.

— George Weigel

I think Pope Francis is a guy who comes from a certain place in the world, and that shapes how he processes things. He's…

— Bill O'Reilly

I am very happy that he [Pope Fransis] did clarify this [marriage defenition], because the other situations can be partnership, can be relations, but…

— Christoph Schonborn

“A pastor must be like a matchmaker who persuades a girl to marry someone else. He must be very careful the girl does not…

— Richard Wurmbrand

[Pope] Francis ought to be taken at his word when he says, as he has often done, that he is a son of the…

— George Weigel

[Pope Francis] comes to that conviction [of family crisis] as a pastor, not as Brad Wilcox or Charles Murray. So he wants to challenge…

— George Weigel

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly…

— Hans Kung

[Pope Francis] is a humble man. He lives the faith out in his own personal life. ... He's here to be a shepherd; he…

— Rick Santorum

There must be several young women who would render the Christian life intensely difficult to him if only you could persuade him to marry…

— CS Lewis