More than 350 participants from across the country registered for the event.

"It's really a privilege to be able to offer up whatever we're going through," a cathedral parishioner said.

The pope's visit will be his 16th trip outside Italy.

Bill Cunningham chose a life of simplicity. For years he slept on a cot in a cramped single room. No kitchen, no bathroom.

South Sudan's government has said at least 272 have been killed, including 33 civilians.

The "police are not a faceless enemy" and "the suspects in crimes or routine traffic stops are not just a faceless threat," but members of families in "need of assistance, protection and fairness."