"I judged they were prepared. They knew what they were doing."

“I ask forgiveness,” the pope said on his flight from Lima to Rome. “It’s a hurt [caused] without wishing it.”

Jesus “is here in Lima, or wherever you are living, in the routine of your daily life and work.”

People and cheered Pope Francis everywhere he went on this last day of his visit.

“Just as the apostles faced the storm on the sea, you had to face the brunt of ‘El Niño costero.’”

“Pope Francis’ statements...were a source of great pain for survivors of sexual abuse,” Cardinal O’Malley said in a statement released Jan. 20.