"From the first moment, I felt the need to be here,” the pope said.

In regions where the fighting and suffering has been the most intense, voters said “yes” to the accord by overwhelming margins.

Nebraska voters face an electoral oddity in November; they are not being asked to repeal the death penalty, but to bring it back.

On the eve of the pope’s visit, Cardinal Pietro Parolin summarized Francis' message: “Don’t turn differences into sources of conflict, but of mutual enrichment.”

African Jesuits vow to help create a new generation of leaders for the continent.

The biggest attraction of all was the presence of the crucifix of John Sullivan, S.J., an Irish Jesuit who died in 1933.