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A protester yells as police form a line across West Florissant Ave., Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, in Ferguson, Mo., before shots were fired near the protest. The one-year anniversary of Michael Brown's death in Ferguson began with a march in his honor and ended with a protest that was interrupted by gunfire. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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Pope Francis delivers his speech during a meeting with Youth Eucharistic Movement in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Friday, Aug. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) ** FILE **
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A number of pro-life and conservative women were not amused by Donald Trump's flipness toward a lack of chivalry and said so on Twitter. (Associated Press)
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"We need a president that will protect that right, and it begins by having an attorney general that will defend them in court, and by appointing people to the Supreme Court that understand these deeply embedded constitutional principles of the right to exercise your faith, not simply to hold your faith privately, but to exercise it in every aspect of your life," said Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican. (Associated Press)
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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)
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Pope Francis delivers his message on the occasion of an audience with participants of Rome's diocese convention in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, June 14, 2015. Francis engaged in some self-promotion during his weekly blessing, alerting the thousands of people in St. Peter's Square that his first solo encyclical is coming out on Thursday and inviting them to pay attention to environmental degradation around them. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Pope Francis greets newlyweds during the general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015. Pope Francis says divorced Catholics who remarry and their children deserve better treatment from the Catholic church. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Pictures of a smooth, brown, egg-sized rock are shown in the printer's manuscript of the Book of Mormon following a news conference Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Church History Library, in Salt Lake City. The Mormon church for the first time is publishing photos of a small sacred stone it believes founder Joseph Smith used to help translate the story that became the basis of the religion. The Mormon church is taking another step in its push to be more transparent, and is releasing more historical documents that shed light on how Joseph Smith formed the religion. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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A picture of a smooth, brown, egg-sized rock is shown in the printer's manuscript of the Book of Mormon following a news conference Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Church History Library, in Salt Lake City. The Mormon church for the first time is publishing photos of a small sacred stone it believes founder Joseph Smith used to help translate the story that became the basis of the religion. The Mormon church is taking another step in its push to be more transparent, and is releasing more historical documents that shed light on how Joseph Smith formed the religion. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Faithful gather in Bresso, near Milan, Italy, to follow a Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI in this Sunday, June 3, 2012, file photo. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni/File)
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This Sept. 3, 2014, file photo shows flowers blooming in front of the Salt Lake Temple, at Temple Square, in Salt Lake City. The Mormon church is taking another step in its push to be more transparent, and is releasing more historical documents that shed light on how Joseph Smith formed the religion. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says the volume being scheduled to be released at a news conference Wednesday in Salt Lake City is a printer's manuscript of the Book of Mormon. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer/File)
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In this Tuesday, June 23, 2015, members of Ultras Nahdawy, a youth group of the Muslim Brotherhood, sing anti-army chants in a protest ahead of the second anniversary of the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in the Nahia district, near Cairo, Egypt. Once sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood, some among the young protesters now resent it as weak and ineffectual. (AP Photo/Belal Darder)
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Security forces, officials and civilians gathered after a deadly blast, claimed by the Islamic State group, struck worshippers attending Friday prayers at a Shiite mosque in Kuwait City on June 26. The explosion struck the Imam Sadiq Mosque in the neighborhood of al-Sawabir, a residential and shopping district of the capital. (Associated Press photographs)
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The stage awaits for the New Hampshire presidential forum. (Image from Steven DiSalvo, Saint Anselm's College)
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Organist Susie Richards and the Rev. Danny Fleming are shown singing at the front of the Big Isaac United Methodist Church in Big Isaac, W.Va., Sunday, May 20, 2007. Rev. Fleming juggles a full-time job with the U.S. Army in Clarksburg and ministers to two churches some Sundays and three others. He spends 20 hours preparing sermons and logs 100 miles on his truck a week. (AP Photo/Bob Shaw/File)
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Philadelphia Police are investigating after vandals toppled 124 headstones at a historic Jewish cemetery. (NBC Philadelphia)
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Cardinal William Wakefield Baum (left), former Archbishop of Washington, died July 23, 2015. In this March 21, 1987 photo, he and West German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger arrived at the Vatican for a private lunch with Pope John Paul II. Cardinal Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. (AP Photo/Gianni Foggia/File)
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Confederate flags sit in the back of a police car as an Atlanta police officer and U.S. Park Ranger stand by outside Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on July 30, 2015. U.S. authorities are investigating after several Confederate battle flags were discovered near the church and a civil rights center named after Martin Luther King, an iconic leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. (Associated Press)
