The pope said there was a "weak response" in most international policies to promoting the common good.

Being the only Chaldean Catholic priest in charge of pastoral work in Turkey, Father Adday is a road warrior who logs thousands of miles meeting Iraqi Christian refugees in Turkey.

"A rigidity that is far from a discernment of situations has been introduced" in seminaries, Pope Francis said. He also called clericalism "one of the most serious illnesses that the church has."

Within half an hour of the Cuban government's announcement Saturday of the death of the 90-year-old revolutionary leader, cheers were heard in Miami's Little Havana.

Castro's reign over the island-nation 90 miles from Florida was marked by the U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The dignity of human life, the common good and solidarity are "more than mere words and phrases," said the Catholic bishops of Washington state in a joint pastoral letter