John D.S. Allen: “I think we would be facing civil military crisis the like of which we have not seen in this country before.”

I think Pope Francis is the new Nelson Mandela. That he's the new sort of voice of moral conscience on the global stage that people recognize as sort of being able to indicate where the side of the angle stands.

I think it is clear that there still is an image problem for the Catholic Church when it comes to women.

The fact that elected leaders from President Trump to Governor Cuomo and Governor Murphy and many others have not only spoken out against this surge of anti-Semitic and anti-Orthodox Jewish attacks--but undertaken concrete actions to have…

To embrace this Franciscan spirit as his first decision I think sends a very clear symbol that in terms of returning the church to the sort of core sense of what it's all about, this is a reform.