"You're certainly the only one in a collar and you're possibly the only one with white hair," Bishop Tighe said about the festival.

Cardinal Thomas Collins called Trudeau's policy "arrogant for powerful, wealthy nations to dictate what priorities developing countries should embrace."

Catholic Church leaders in the U.S. spent the week of March 6-10 trying to allay fears and urging compassion.

The senior Protestant politician in Northern Ireland left the door open Sunday for stepping aside as part of a potential deal to revive the British territory's unity government with Catholics.

A tribal coalition, which considers many sites within Bears Ears sacred, fears the Trump administration will take the unprecedented step of stripping a national monument of its designation, and leave their ancestral lands vulnerable.

When the pope gets on a plane, reporters go on high alert.