Father Marcelo Pérez, an Indigenous Tzotzil priest and peace activist, was murdered after celebrating Sunday Mass in Mexico's southern Chiapas state.

Mexico’s bishops wished Ms. Sheinbaum well. They urged her to govern for all Mexicans, even though she has a congressional majority large enough to permit constitutional changes without seeking support from her political opposition.

In my search for good music and celebration, I found Catholicism and a yearning for community.

López Obrador says he plans to go quietly into political retirement, but AMLO playing Benedict to Claudia Sheinbaum’s Francis will be just one of the incoming Mexican president’s major challenges.

“We will also respect political, social, cultural and religious diversity. Gender and sexual diversity. We will always continue to fight against any form of discrimination,” President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum said.

Msgr. Salvador Rangel, a retired bishop who was famous for trying to mediate between drug cartels in Mexico, was located and taken to a hospital after apparently being briefly kidnapped.