Mr. Torres's relentless years of ministering to gang members, drug addicts and the incarcerated is beginning to be recognized.

Police are now describing the shooting as a “lone wolf” event and report that they are not seeking other suspects.

After a few tense weeks, a peaceful and bloodless transfer of power has taken place in the West African nation of Gambia.

Cardinal Tobin: "Closing borders and building walls are not rational acts.... Mass detentions and wholesale deportation benefit no one; such inhuman policies destroy families and communities."

"Allowing the plunder and destruction of God's wondrous creation to support the greed of a few is morally, spiritually and ethically wrong."

"Every time I think of my husband and imagine what torture would have made him into, my heart aches."