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Some 5,000 to 6,000 cards are donated annually, mostly from local parishioners, for the inmates to send to family and maybe even the guards.

Like Pope Francis, many of the over-80 cardinals have active ministry schedules and continue to travel the world on behalf of the church.

BAPCHULE — Growing up on the sprawling Gila River Indian Reservation south of Phoenix, Bryson Hall remembers the day tragedy shattered his world: Oct. 12, 1996. He was just 12 years old.

GUADALUPE — A full hour before the bilingual liturgy that would feature the first priestly ordination ever held in this small town nestled between Tempe and Phoenix, the mission-style church was filling up quickly.

One of the priests profiled received advance degrees and traveled much of the world as a veterinarian in the U.S. Army.

Some 1,000 current and former prisoners from 12 countries, as well as priests, religious men and women and laypeople who work in prison ministry, attended the jubilee for prisoners Nov. 6.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis will conclude the Year of Mercy by creating 17 new cardinals, including three from the United States: Archbishop Blase J. Cupich of Chicago; Bishop Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the new Vatican office for laity, family and life and former bishop of Dallas; and Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin of Indianapolis.

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The United States, with its mixed record on the death penalty, is about to take a closer look at the issue this fall with two cases before the Supreme Court and three referendums on state ballots in the November election.

We can still remember the photos and the videos of a woman without fear who went into the poorest places of the poorest and lifted the most downtrodden to a place of dignity.

"It's amazing (that) you're walking in the suffering. In the silence you hear the stumbling, the falling, the crying of the people," one pilgrim said.