Church Quote by Sylvia Poggioli

“[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.”

Sylvia Poggioli

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Church John paul John paul ii Mets Orthodox Orthodox church Patriarch Pope Pope Francis Predecessors Two

More by Sylvia Poggioli

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

Sylvia Poggioli

Image

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

Sylvia Poggioli

Image

One footnote says that divorced and remarried faithful, who are not recognized by the Catholic Church because it upholds the indissolubility of marriage, might…

Sylvia Poggioli

Image

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

Sylvia Poggioli

Image

Asked about Donald Trump, [Pope] Francis said a person who thinks only about building walls and not building bridges is not Christian, a remark…

Sylvia Poggioli

Image

[Pope Francis] continued to focus on migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos, which was the front line of the European migrant crisis.…

Sylvia Poggioli

Image

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…

Sylvia Poggioli

Image

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

Image

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

Sylvia Poggioli

Image

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

Sylvia Poggioli

Image

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…

Sylvia Poggioli

Image

[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…

Sylvia Poggioli

Image

Explore all 15 Sylvia Poggioli quotes

More Church quotes

While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the…

Anthea Butler

Image

If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small…

Terry Bozzio

Image

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .

Upton Sinclair

Image

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

Thomas Jefferson

Image

Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being…

Donna Freitas

Image

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

Craig Groeschel

Image

The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not…

Samir Selmanovic

Image

T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people…

Mark Dever

Image

There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation…

Susan Jacoby