The attack showed the challenges of church-state relations in a country plagued by polarized politics and violence and suffering through shortages of everything from food to medicines to Communion wine for celebrating Mass.

The church should adhere to the same business practices expected of institutions and governments worldwide, conference participants said.

"We had fixed this guy's bike and I remembered his face," Pichler said. "There he was riding near the corner of Walnut and Broadway and he had a nice grin. This guy was so happy to have regained his mobility."

The Philadelphia guidelines say Catholics in same-sex partnerships, civilly remarried parishioners and unmarried couples living together should not be permitted to serve on parish councils, instruct the faithful, serve as lectors or dispense Communion.

Pope Francis expressed his "deepest sympathy and compassion" as well as his closeness to the Solomons in his prayers "for the young man who died so tragically."

Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and prolific author who died on July 2 at age 87 in his New York home, has been remembered in tributes from around the world for standing up for human dignity and for being a witness to the world of the atrocities of the Holocaust.When P