The two talked about how to improve pastoral services over coffee Tuesday. Later, Ryan swore Conroy in again.

Bishop Gassis' visits came in the middle of decades of on-again, off-again fighting between the central government and several rebel movements in the South and other peripheral areas of the country.

In Poland, the church created the space for people to breathe—physically, intellectually and spiritually.

The dialogue, for many students, is a way to hold the government accountable for the downward spiral of violence, which they blame on Mr. Ortega and his wife and Nicaragua’s vice-president, Rosario Murillo.

"We are sending innocent people back to one of the most chaotic and dangerous places in the world."

These are our brothers and sisters, not freeloaders.