My son hates to sing. And the place Bobby hates to sing the most is in Mass.

Everything that she was, formed who he became.

Although the total was slightly higher from the 3.2 million visitors received by Pope Francis in 2015, for a jubilee year it still fell short of the 5.9 million pilgrims who visited in 2014.

The imbalance in the world, one Jesuit expert has said, reflects how years of papal pleas and Vatican mandates have not been received or implemented consistently everywhere.

These people's lives gave us a glimpse of something meaningful, something that liberated or encouraged us.