Jesus “calls us not to think according to the categories of 'friend or enemy'”, Pope Francis said at yesterday's Angelus (full text, full video).
French priest Jean-Baptiste Fouque was beatified in Marseilles on Sunday (Italian report). Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has said that female deacons are an “open question”. Priestly celibacy “must not be a taboo topic”, Bishop Peter Kohlgraf of Mainz has said. The Russian Orthodox Church has suggested that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko may be a Catholic. Sandro Magister and Michael Sainsbury comment on the China deal. And a dog that completed the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela has visited Rome. Follow me on Twitter @lukecoppen for updates throughout the day.
