Documents requesting that Charlene Richard, Louisiana's Little Cajun Saint, be canonized will be sent to the Vatican and the public is invited to witness it.
Catholics around the globe are expressing mixed but mostly positive reactions to Pope Francis' recent remarks that the church has become too focused on "small-minded rules" on hot-button issues like homosexuality and abortion.
At churches over the weekend, the faithful spoke about how they believed Francis' comments would impact the Catholic Church...
Pope Francis on Saturday challenged bishops from around the world to get out of their churches and preach, and to have the courage to go to the farthest margins of society to find the faithful.