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The NFL Class of 2014 and their moms share moments, memories
• NEW YORK (AP) -- Top prospects in the NFL draft took some special guests to Radio City Music Hall's red carpet: their mothers.
• Before the clock started ticking Thursday in the first round, the AP asked players and their moms to share stories about each other ahead of Mother's Day on Sunday. The players told us what they most loved and admired about their moms, and the moms gave us a few of their proudest moments and most precious memories.
• Blake Bortles, the Central Florida quarterback picked third by Jacksonville, said it best of his mother, Suzy: "She's my hero."
• Here's more from the NFL Class of 2014 and their moms:
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AP Interview: Ahead of meeting with pope, Orthodox patriarch says 2 leaders seeking unity
• ISTANBUL (AP) -- Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of 250 million Orthodox Christians, says a meeting with Pope Francis in Jerusalem this month will help move the two churches closer to ending their nearly 1,000-year divide.
• In an interview with The Associated Press in his Istanbul office, Bartholomew also praised Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for improving rights for Christians but said pointedly, "it is not enough."
• The meetings between the ecumenical patriarch and the leader of the world's Roman Catholics on May 25-26 will commemorate the historic visit of their predecessors 50 years ago that launched a dialogue aimed at ending the two churches' schism in 1054.
• "We shall say through our meeting and our prayer that it is the intention of both of us to work further for Christian unity and reconciliation," Bartholomew said, sitting at his desk piled high with papers in his Patriarchate office. Around him, golden icons from Byzantium on the walls loomed over standing photos of the patriarch greeting world leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama and Erdogan.
• Although the Orthodox and Catholic churches remain estranged on key issues, including married clergy and the centralized power of the Vatican, there have been moves toward closer understanding, beginning with the 1964 meeting between Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras in Jerusalem. It was the first (Continued on page 32)
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