It was the farthest trip of his pontificate and one of the longest papal trips ever in terms of days on the road and distance traveled. With half of East Timor’s population gathered at a seaside park, Francis couldn’t help but oblige them with a final good night and languid loops in his popemobile, long after the sun had set and the field was lit by cellphone screens. “How many children you have!” Francis marveled to the crowd of 600,000, which amounted to the biggest-ever turnout for a papal event as a proportion of the population.
A longtime friend of Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, the Old Dominion University ROTC instructor who was viciously gunned down by a convicted ISIS supporter, offered an emotional on-air tribute to his late col...