BOSTON (AP) — There's a mugshot from Alcatraz, an autographed prison shirt and poker chips featuring his photo.
Memorabilia related to Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger is being peddled to coincide with the release of the new Johnny Depp movie on Bulger's life.
Pope Francis told U.S. bishops on Wednesday they should avoid "harsh and divisive" language and create a church with the warmth of a "family fire" as he laid out a vision for American Catholicism far from the defensive stands on social issues that have put church leaders at the center of the culture wars.
At a prayer service at Washington's Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, Francis told the bishops he was aware that "the field in which you sow is unyielding" and that there's a temptation "to think back on bygone times and to devise harsh responses to fierce opposition."
