The debate between conservatives, who love the church precisely for its strictness, and progressives is likely to heat up over the next few years.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
Fellini's love-hate relationship with the Catholic Church inspires some of the film's most engaging moments.
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The Church embodies an instrument of love, promoting the Gospel.
Love it or hate it, the Catholic church believes strongly in what it teaches, and has the arguments and evidence to back it up.
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.
Although Romans have had a love-hate relationship with all things papal since the Catholic Church began calling Rome its home since the 1st Century.
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.
Mr. GORDON HINCKLEY (President, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints): We love them as sons and daughters of God.
Palin's mother, Sally, took the family to church, and her father, Chuck, instilled in her a love for sports and competition.
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.
He says he wants to love people, give them a chance to let God change them and see how this church plant goes.
Successful business tycoons, idle trust fund babies and wealthy, paranoid heiresses searching for true love all throng to the club in much the same way fanatical Christians flock to the church.
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.
Above all in the Church we need to create safe spaces for these issues to be discussed in honesty and in love.
Mrs Robinson, a member of the Metropolitan Tabernacle Church in Belfast, defended her remarks claiming she aired them in the wrong environment before saying "love the sinner, not the sin".
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