“Do not be afraid to bear witness to Jesus even where it is uncomfortable or inconvenient,” Pope Francis has told missionaries. Sandro Magister argues that the new movements “are everywhere in decline, in some cases ruinously so”. Barbie Latza Nadeau says “there may be no more important meeting in Francis’s entire papacy” than the Amazon synod. Auguste Meyrat suggests that “elitism and anti-social behavior currently limits the appeal and efficacy of traditional Catholicism”. Fr Julian Large says Newman would not have been surprised “to see extreme ultramontanism and liberalism one day fused together into a noxious mélange”. Daniel Mascarenhas SJ reflects on the “constant struggle” between his head and his heart on immigration. And KV Turley recalls how Charles de Foucauld inspired a Eucharistic procession in the Sahara. Follow me on Twitter @lukecoppen for updates throughout the day.