People cannot sit back and be indifferent or unresponsive to growing poverty in the world as a privileged minority accumulates "ostentatious wealth," Pope Francis said.

Policies that involve criminalizing and detaining child migrants "are an insult to human dignity," the Vatican observer to U.N. said.

"Whoever was opposed to Bishop Okpaleke taking possession of the diocese wants to destroy the church. This is forbidden," the pope said.

About two dozen “Marches against Shariah” organized Saturday in cities across the country by ACT for America, a self-styled grass-roots national security organization.

“We know what our traditions, we know what our differences are, but we also know what unites us.”

"Women are fully entitled to actively take part in all settings, and their rights must be affirmed and protected," the pope said.