Bishop Hugo Alberto Torres Marín of Apartadó (map), a city of 200,000, decried “the murder of defenseless young people … attacks on police stations, [and] the consequent closure of schools and public services.”
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and