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Transgender bathroom illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Pope Francis waves to faithful from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's square during the Regina Coeli midday prayer, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 19, 2015. Referring to a boat crowded with migrants capsized in the sea north of Libya, Francis said:"There are fears there could be hundreds of dead", then he bowed his head in silent prayer as did many of the tens of thousands in the crowd. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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This undated image made from a video released by Islamic State militants, Sunday, April 19, 2015, shows a group of captured Ethiopian Christians taken to a beach before they were killed by Islamic State militants, in Libya. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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National Edition News cover for April 19, 2015 - Vatican reaches truce with nuns over doctrine: Brazilian Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, left, flanked by Sister Sharon Holland, center, and Mother Agnes Mary Donovan, speaks during a press conference at the Vatican, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. The Vatican released the long-awaited results of its controversial three-year investigation into U.S. women's religious orders, and the report was remarkable for what it didn't say. After years of tension and distrust between the nuns and the Vatican, there was no criticism of American nuns, no demands that they shift their focus from social justice issues to emphasize Catholic teaching on abortion, no condemnation that a feminist, secular mentality had taken hold in their ranks. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia presents the Holy Shroud, the 14 foot-long linen revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus, on display during a preview for the press at the Cathedral of Turin, Italy, Saturday, April 18, 2015. The long linen with the faded image of a bearded man, that is the object of centuries-old fascination and wonderment, will be on display for the public from April 19 to June 24, 2015. Pope Francis said he is planning to visit the Holy Shroud during a a pilgrimage to Turin next June 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
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FILE - In this March 14, 2013 file photo, Cardinal Francis George speaks during an interview at the North American College in Rome. George, a vigorous defender of Roman Catholic orthodoxy who led the U.S. bishops' fight against Obamacare and played a key role in the church's response to the clergy sex abuse scandal, has died. He was 78. George, who retired as Chicago archbishop in the fall of 2014, died Friday morning, April 17, 2015, after a long fight with cancer, according to the Archdiocese of Chicago. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
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In this April 16, 2008 file photo Pope Benedict XVI embraces Chicago's Cardinal Francis George after addressing the bishops at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. Cardinal Francis George, a vigorous defender of Roman Catholic orthodoxy who played a key role in the church's response to the clergy sex abuse scandal, has died. He was 78. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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People walk to the Conference Center during opening session of the two-day Mormon church conference Saturday, April 4, 2015, in Salt Lake City. Mormon leaders once again used their biannual conference Saturday to outline the faith's commitment the belief that marriage is an institution exclusive to a man and a woman. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Pope Francis, right, talks with a delegation of The Leadership Conference of Women Religious during an audience in the pontiff's studio at the Vatican, Thursday, April 16, 2015. The Vatican has announced the unexpected conclusion of a controversial overhaul of the main umbrella group of US nuns in a major shift in tone and treatment of American nuns under the social justice-minded Pope Francis. (LOsservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)
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Face to Face: Pope Francis met Thursday with a delegation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, and the Vatican announced an end to a conflict with the umbrella group of U.S. nuns in a major shift in tone. (Associated Press)
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In this Nov. 12, 2012 file photo, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, of San Francisco, center, and Archbishop William Lori, of Baltimore, listen to a speaker during the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' annual fall meeting in Baltimore. Local Catholics have gone public with their complaints about the San Francisco archbishop. On Thursday, April 16, 2015, an advertisement in the San Francisco Chronicle shows more than 100 Catholics have signed a full-page newspaper advertisement asking Pope Francis to remove Cordileone. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky/File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2012 file photo, Salvatore J. Cordileone greets a congregation member during a ceremony to install him as the new archbishop of San Francisco at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco. Local Catholics have gone public with their complaints about the San Francisco archbishop. On Thursday, April 16, 2015, an advertisement in the San Francisco Chronicle shows more than 100 Catholics have signed a full-page newspaper advertisement asking Pope Francis to remove Cordileone. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, Pool, File)
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A broken window is seen at the center of the Jewish community in Rostock, northern Germany seen in 2009. The 766 cases in 2014 marked a sharp increase of 38 percent over the previous year in which 554 incidents of anti-Semitism were reported. According to the study, it was the second worst year after 2009, when 1,118 incidents were recorded. (Associated Press)
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Lessons: Before the Central African Republic war, "Our kids could play and go to school together without differentiating who's a Muslim or Christian kid," a refugee said. (Associated Press)
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The military had 2,837 active-duty chaplains as of December 2014 but recent high-profile cases of military chaplains facing punishment for private counseling sessions that reflected the teachings of their religion could cause devout Americans who are qualified for military service to think twice about joining the U.S. military. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this May 8, 1991, file photo, Gordon Schaber poses for a photo in his south Sacramento, Calif., home. Schaber was the Dean of the McGeorge School of Law. The Irish Catholic boy who came of age in Sacramento after World War II is an unlikely candidate to be the author of the Supreme Court’s major gay rights rulings. Justice Anthony Kennedy’s friendship with Schaber began in the mid-1960s when Schaber recruited the young lawyer to teach at the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. Schaber, who served as the school’s dean for 34 years, was in the process of transforming McGeorge from an unaccredited night school to a respected institution that now is a part of Pacific University.(Genaro Molina/Sacramento Bee via AP)
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A Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints missionary visits a crowded Thai festival in Bangkok at night and prepares to mingle among the public and explain to them how to be baptized into the Mormon faith. Such missionary work is paying off. (Richard S. Ehrlich/Special to The Washington Times)
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The Rev. Al Sharpton speaks during a service at Charity Missionary Baptist Church in the wake of the death of Walter Scott, the black driver who was fatally shot by a white police officer after he fled a traffic stop, Sunday, April 12, 2015, in North Charleston, S.C. The officer, Michael Thomas Slager, has been fired and charged with murder. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Pope Francis, left, is greeted by the head of Armenia's Orthodox Church Karekin II, during an Armenian-Rite Mass on the occasion of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 12, 2015. Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed by genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey however denies that the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated, and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
