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Egyptian army tanks deploy outside the presidential palace during a protest against President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2012, file photo, Marquette plays against Savannah State during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Milwaukee. As a chunk of the Big East, Marquette included, transforms itself into a mostly or even all-Catholic basketball league, the conference faces a choice: play up or play down its faith-based roots? (AP Photo/Tom Lynn, File)

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Kids play in the "moon bounce" during the Chanukah Carnival at the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012. Approximately 100 people came to enjoy arts and crafts, dreidel games, food and even a doughnut-walk contest. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Mega Bloks' World of Warcraft: Arthas and Sindragosa makes a great gift for builders. (Photograph by Joseph Szadkowski)

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A woman reacts while paying respects for shooting victims at a makeshift memorial at St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. On Friday, a gunman allegedly killed his mother at their home and then opened fire inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, killing 26 people, including 20 children. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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A couple huddle in the corner of a parking lot of the rectory of the St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church as police respond to a call of a bomb threat as parishioners remembered 20 children and six adults who were massacred at an elementary school, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Brian Wallace, right, spokesman for the Diocese of Bridgeport, speaks to reporters after a bomb threat at St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012 in Newtown, Conn. Worshippers hurriedly left the church Sunday, not far from where a gunman opened fire Friday inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. Police later said nothing dangerous was found. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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A swat team responds to a bomb threat at St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. Worshippers hurriedly left the church Sunday, not far from where a gunman opened fire Friday inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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A man holds a child while paying respects to shooting victims at a makeshift memorial outside of St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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A woman pays respects at a memorial outside of St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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A woman embraces a child as children run outside of St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church before a Sunday mass service, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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A note rests next to a candle near a makeshift memorial outside of St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church following a Sunday Mass, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Newtown Police Officer Maryhelen McCarthy places flowers at a makeshift memorial outside St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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People pay respects by a makeshift memorial outside of St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church between Mass services, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. On Friday, a gunman allegedly killed his mother at their home and then opened fire inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 26 people, including 20 children. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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A priest embraces a woman outside St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church between Masses on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass in St. Patrick Church in Rome on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)