WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Johnny Gosch left home for the last time on a warm Sunday in late summer, in the pale morning light before sunrise. He was 12 years old, and he liked building model rockets.

CHILI – Using the Gospel to comfort and his church's motto to encourage, the Rev. Paul Bonacci addressed more than 100 parishioners at Friday morning Mass in the gymnasium of St. Pius Tenth Church ...