If he wasn't what the modern world wanted -- if he wasn't prepared to bend every principle or rule to appease all the people all the time -- then that's the world's problem rather than his.

CNN: Why pope will be remembered for generations

And these kinds of sectarian and tribal fault lines are part of what we have to get beyond, because they don't work in a modern world.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Holds a Press Conference with King Abdullah II of Jordan | The White House

But realistically in the modern world you can't do that.

WSJ: Danny Boyle: Art, Memory and Multitasking

We get the modern world, he doesn't.

BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | In full: Cameron speech