But there is widespread expectation that Francis will soon name a new master of liturgical ceremonies more in line with his priorities of bringing the church and its message of love and service to ordinary people without the "high church" trappings of his predecessor.
"The thing I feel most strongly is the conviction of having acted out of visceral love for the Church of Christ and of its leader on earth, " he said.
The Church embodies an instrument of love, promoting the Gospel.
Mr. GORDON HINCKLEY (President, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints): We love them as sons and daughters of God.
His own windows, at St Cadoc's chapel in Cowbridge in South Wales, or in the Church of Sts Peter and Paul at Great Somerford in Wiltshire, showed a love of blocks of pure colour carefully contained within thick, angular leads, especially glowing blues and rich reds: the medieval way of glass.
But he ends up so far from this theme that a potentially glorious scene, a sermon on water as a metaphor for love in the mission church of St Xavier del Bac, becomes an aside in a chapter about junk food and barrios.
Ms. JENNIFER CLARK (Los Angeles): The fact that all the youth come together to pray and to go to mass shows that we're in support of what the church does and that we truly do love the Catholic Church and believe in what the Catholic Church teaches.
Fellini's love-hate relationship with the Catholic Church inspires some of the film's most engaging moments.
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Benedict gave an insight into the life of the pontiff, describing it as without any kind of privacy, with his time devoted entirely to the Church -- perhaps particularly difficult for a man known for his love of scholarship.
What follows is an untraditional love story, in which Lucinda, determined to transport a church made of glass from Britain to the Australian outback, bets Oscar her inheritance that he can't accomplish such a daunting feat.
The Presbyterian mystic fell in love with the island, built an enormous church to seat three times the then island population of 100 and started working Sanibel into his sermons wherever he went, convinced that God had arranged his boating accident.
"All of us have understood that it is precisely the deep love that your holiness has for God and the church which pushed you to this act, " he said.
However, this does not mean abandoning the Church, but rather, if God has requested this of me, it is so that I can continue to serve the Church with the same dedication and the same love with which I have done up until now, but in a way adapted to my age and my strength.
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