POPE’S BLESSINGS IN BAHRAIN

Pope Francis arrives for a meeting with youths Saturday at the Sacred Heart School in Manama, Bahrain. The pope is there to participate in a government-sponsored conference on East-West dialogue and to minister to Bahrain's tiny Catholic community, part of his effort to pursue dialogue with the Muslim world. Francis urged in his homily to turn the other cheek, “even when evil is done to us. … Peace cannot be restored if a harsh word is answered with an even harsher one.”