More than 3,500 attended the first traditional Latin Mass in decades at the National Shrine.
An election victory for Iraq’s more secular parties is not tempting Iraqi Christian refugees to return home,
Colombian authorities said a Catholic priest led paramilitary groups that committed rapes and massacres.
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.
Mexican priests have been transferred to other parishes or even moved to other parts of the country because of threats.
The Archdiocese of Chicago is seeking the canonization of the Rev. Augustine Tolton, the first U.S. priest of African descent.
