(affectionately known around town as “The Mayor”) would be back for a seventh season with the team, but Gaines is not currently on the roster.

In 2012, the former Angelo State University standout hit .339 with nine home runs, 36 RBIs and 24 stolen bases in 71 games. His .339 average was the second-highest on the team and the sixth-best in the ULB.

Patton had a league-high 70 RBIs and 30 doubles, and Jones scored a league-high 77 runs.

The only hitter who has returned to the lineup from last year is infielder Danny Hernandez.

In order to make up for all of the offensive firepower that’s now gone, the Colts will have to rely on new additions such as first baseman Kyle Nichols, infielder Steve Rinaudo, outfielders Braden Embry and Mikesolution.

Although the Vatican has been pressing for tighter controls on the global arms trade for years, and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace issued a document on the subject in 1994, this is apparently the first time a pope has called the importing of arms a "grave sin."

More locally, Benedict used his welcome address at Beirut's Rafik Hariri Airport to extol Lebanon's "harmony and gentleness" and its "celebrated equilibrium", extolling the Mediterranean state of 4 million as a "model to the inhabitants of the whole region and the entire world."

Such praise reflects Lebanon's penchant for striking a balance among 18 different religious groups, including a Christian minority of roughly 40 percent -- though, of course, it overlooks the civil war that gripped the country from 1975 to