The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

We must look for him without ceasing,” the pope’s prepared text emphasized. “Because if he has risen from the dead, then he ...

Ackerman grew up in rural Reynolds, North Dakota, as “a little farm boy milking cows and feeding the chickens,” and helping ...