Pope Benedict XVI is planning to create a department charged with overseeing the “re-evangelization” of traditionally Christian countries.

More than 3,500 attended the first traditional Latin Mass in decades at the National Shrine.

Mexican priests have been transferred to other parishes or even moved to other parts of the country because of threats.

According to a new report, in the Gulf South the number of unemployed persons has more than doubled.

The pope was “deeply moved by their stories and expressed his shame and sorrow over what victims and their families have suffered.”

An Irish government spokesman said that amount, even added to the large sums already paid by religious orders, was still insufficient.