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Pope Francis waves to the faithful as he arrives to recite the Angelus noon prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015. Pope Francis said the detonation of atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 years ago remains &quot;a permanent warning to humanity&quot; to reject war and ban weapons of mass destruction. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Pope and Congress: Francis is certain to challenge lawmakers

By Andrew Taylor - Associated Press

Pope Francis asks how parents can educate children in Christian life "if we keep them at a distance as if they were excommunicated." (Associated Press)

Pope Francis calls for acceptance of divorced, remarried Catholics

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, July 28, 2015, photo, Eric Hetland (left) and Chris Zelis, who are with Scouts For Equality in Chicago, hold up their applications for assistant scoutmasters before submitting them in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. Mr. Hetland, who works at a high school science academy, had been involved in scouting from age 5 to 22, when he came out as bisexual and was not asked back to a job at a Scout summer camp. (Eric Hetland via AP)

Bismarck bishop tells parishes to break ties with Boy Scouts

By James MacPherson - Associated Press

Bishops arrive Tuesday Oct. 7, 2014, at a morning session of a two-week synod on family issues at the Vatican. Pope Francis has urged bishops to speak their minds about contentious issues like contraception, gays, marriage and divorce at the start of the meeting aimed at making the church's teaching on family matters relevant to today's Catholics. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Catholic scholar: ‘sacramental equality’ in the Church won’t work

By Kevin J. Jones - Catholic News Agency

A girl uses two small wooden crosses as sun shades to protect herself from the glare of the morning sun as she waits for the arrival of Pope Francis outside the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Presentation of El Quinche, in El Quinche, Ecuador, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Francis wraps up the first leg of a three-nation South American pilgrimage Wednesday. Next stop on the pope's South American tour is La Paz, Bolivia, where he will be welcomed by President Evo Morales. (AP Photo/Ana Buitron)

Pope Francis asks pardon for church’s ‘crimes’ against indigenous

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

In this March 25, 2015 file photo, Dan Diaz, the husband of Brittany Maynard, watches a video of his wife, recorded 19 days before her assisted suicide death, where she says that no one should have to leave their home to legally end her life, during a news conference at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. The authors of a bill that would allow California physicians to help terminally ill patents end their lives, Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis and Sen. Bill Monning, D-Carmel, did not present the measure to the Assembly Health Committee as scheduled because it did not have enough votes to advance, Tuesday, July 7, 2015. Maynard, a 29-year-old San Francisco woman who had terminal brain cancer, moved to Oregon where she could legally end her life. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Catholic Church helps defeat right-to-die bill in California

By Michael R. Blood - Associated Press

Pope Francis is presented with a gift of a crucifix carved into a wooden hammer and sickle, the Communist symbol uniting labor and peasants, by Bolivian President Evo Morales in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Pope Francis chides hammer-and-sickle crucifix given by Evo Morales

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Sister Chris Schenk is one of three nuns chronicled in "Radical Grace," a documentary on their work challenging the power structures of the Catholic Church. (www.radicalgracefilm.com)

‘Radical Grace’: Feminist nuns Sisters Campbell, Hughes, Schenk challenge Catholic power structure

By Emily Leslie - The Washington Times