With a smile on his face and his right arm raised in the air, Francis placed his two middle fingers in his palms and signed “I love you.”

Amy Coney Barrett's religious background with People of Praise should not alarm us.

The juvenile was charged with arson in the first degree, according to a June 20 news release from the Stearns County Sheriff's Office, he was 13 at the time of the offense.

An increase in calls to dioceses to report claims of clergy sexual abuse has happened before, and is likely to happen again in the wake of the credible claim lodged against Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, according to the head of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Child and Youth Protection.

The retired archbishop of Washington said he will no longer exercise any public ministry "in obedience" to the Vatican after an allegation he abused a teenager almost 50 years ago has been found credible.

None have been more outspoken, however, than the bishops with dioceses on or near the border between the U.S. and Mexico.