Parkway to hold about a quarter-million for papal mass

The parkway where Pope Francis will celebrate Mass will be able to hold about 250,000 of the million or more people organizers have projected will attend the service, a new estimate shows. The Secret Service told The Associated Press on Friday that about 80,000 people with tickets distributed mostly through local parishes and an online lottery will fill the first three blocks in front of the pope’s altar for the mass Sept.