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An editorial March 5 in the archdiocesan publication Desde la Fe wondered if the pope had been properly briefed on Mexican matters prior to his Feb. 12-17 visit.

“For our community this is very sad and I personally find it horrendous that these death threats have succeeded in pushing our priest out.”

South Africans need to “acknowledge the link between race, power and privilege” and redress the economic inequalities brought about by past discriminatory laws and practices, the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference said in a March 7 pastoral letter.

“Donald Trump is manifestly unfit to be president of the United States. His campaign has already driven our politics down to new levels of vulgarity,” said the letter from two prominent Catholics, Robert George and George Weigel.

Her best-known project as first lady was the “Just Say No” campaign to help kids and teens stay off drugs.

The phrase “undue burden” was the expression du jour March 2 and essentially the heart of the argument in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the challenge by Texas abortion clinics to a 2013 state law requiring them to comply with standards of ambulatory surgical centers.

“It is a good time to remind ourselves what lives dedicated to genuine public service in politics look like. We find it in the lives of Vice President Biden and Speaker Boehner.”

The number of baptized Catholics reached 1.27 billion or 17.8 percent of the global population.

Four Missionaries of Charity and 10 to 12 other people at a home the sisters operate for the elderly and disabled in Aden, Yemen.