Several hundred hold a protest to push college officials to be more forgiving of those who violate rules banning things such as drinking, premarital sex, beards and piercings.

The pontiff makes an unprecedented gesture of humbleness to close a two-day retreat for the African leaders.

Archbishop Wilton Gregory promises Catholics he will ‘rebuild your trust’ after Pope Francis named him to lead the archdiocese that has become the epicenter of the clergy sex abuse crisis in the U.S.

The group urges the Holy See to publicly oppose such laws and ‘conversion’ therapies.

They cite s climate of distrust after they denounced the sexual abuse of nuns by clergy.