Over 700 individuals participated in a four-day conference celebrating the 50-year anniversary.

"We want the perpetrators to apologize, and the country must seek appropriate mechanisms to forgive and repair, so that that does not happen again," Miguel Montenegro said.

"As Catholics we know, reconciliation is a process, there are no magic pills, as much as we might want them," Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux said.

"The sisters give to us a great sample of courage, presenting the Gospel in a way people can understand it and a way people can respond to it."

Three officers are confirmed dead and three others wounded after a shooting in Baton Rouge, a sheriff's office spokeswoman said Sunday. One suspect is dead and law enforcement officials believe two others are still at large, the spokeswoman said.Casey Rayborn Hicks, a spokeswoman for the East Ba

The Dignity for the Unborn law was to have gone into effect July 1, but a U.S. District Court Judge granted a injunction on its enforcement.