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“What is particularly fascinating and troubling is all three recent popes were clearly opposed to the wars, yet at no level in the Catholic community was there any major opposition or sustained witness,” San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy said.

Up to 40,000 people are believed to be stuck throughout Greece as border after border to northern Europe has closed along the main route through the Balkans used by more than a million people since the migratory wave began a year ago.

“Pedophilia and the attachment to money are the two behaviors of the clergy that have most wounded and angered the Christian people,” Servite Father Ermes Ronchi said during the retreat on March 9.

Even with Sanders’ win, Clinton and Trump moved closer to a general election face-off.

Police said the man killed in Jaffa was an American tourist, but did not provide further details. A dozen Israelis, civilians and police officers, were wounded in the Palestinian knife and gun attacks.

“The survey finds deep religious divisions in Israeli society, not only between Jews and Arabs, but also among Jews.”

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.