Rome police block survivor march

ROME (AP) — Italian paramilitary police blocked a boulevard leading to the Vatican to prevent a march Oct. 31 by some 100 survivors of clergy sex abuse from reaching St. Peter’s Square, but later allowed two protesters to leave letters from the abused at the Holy See’s doorstep. The two also left a dozen stones near the obelisk in St. Peter’s square to mark a symbolic path so other survivors might know they have company in their suffering.