At the trial’s fourth session Nov. 17, defense lawyer Luigi Panella argued that conversations between the prosecution and Pope Francis regarding the case should be included in the evidence.

Glasgow was meant to deliver what Paris had begun. Instead, as its last days ground on, discontent and disappointment were rising.

Criminals “are not dangerous people. They are only people who are not sufficiently loved.”

“Every Cuban should be able to freely and respectfully express and share his personal opinions, his thoughts or his convictions, even when he disagrees with the majority,” the bishops said.

“We all need God to help us to make sense of our lives, so when we try to live without God, we can become confused,” Archbishop Gomez explained.

The Catholic Church must do a better job instructing priests on what to do if a victim recounts his or her abuse in the confessional and in the unlikely case that an abuser confesses, said Hans Zollner, S.J.