Pope Francis Quotes

You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.

You cannot insult the faith of others.

I'm sorry if any of you are Catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're Catholic.

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

Where I think people are being offensive to religion in this country - whichever religion that might be, but particularly the one I and many other Christians subscribe to - well, we will just call it out, and we will demand the same respect that people should provide to all religions.

I respect and believe in all religions.

I make fun of people who are religious, because they're fundamentally weak.

You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.

I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment - the good judgment - not to be - not to offend other peoples' faiths.

The thing about me is, I don't care what religion you are. If someone is attacking your religion, I will have your back, and I will defend you. I think that is the most repulsive thing a person can do, attack another person's faith.

I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed

Freedom of Expression stops where it can do harm …. My community is humiliated, my religion is insulted. I ask for justice.

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

None of us should sit in judgment in the way that anyone else practices his religion.

I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal people.

Jerusalem is holy to three religions. You have to respect that.

My goal is never to make fun of religion.

My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to.

A word to those of you out there who have yet to be offended by something I have said: Please be patient. I am working as fast as I can.

One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.

My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint them just to provoke a fight and just to provoke it like thumbing your nose at someone else and going, "What are you gonna do about it?"

I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend!

Even the Islam stuff I thought was pretty respectful about Islam in a funny way. I mean, yes, from a secular point of view, but it talks about the birth of this religion, and I thought it was pretty admiring of the person at the center of it, the prophet of Islam.

You don't need to apologize for an opinion, but in terms of respect for the church and people's faith lives, Hillary Clinton has that respect, because it's what motivates her.