Pope Francis is showing that if we first "evangelise and humanise the culture, then the world will be safe for the unborn, the elderly and the unproductive", Cardinal Seán O'Malley of Boston has said (full text). The Pope told would-be priests yesterday that "joining the seminary is as serious as getting married". Jesuit superior general Fr Adolfo Nicolás has spoken of his emotion when "a Jesuit Pope presided at one of our Eucharistic celebrations" for the first time in history last week. Michael d'Antonio and David Gibson suggest that Francis risks alienating a significant part of his flock. Taylor Marshall argues that Michelangelo's decision to depict Moses with horns wasn't based on a translation error. The Philadelphia Inquirer pays tribute to a devout Catholic "hospital clown". And Alberto Gasbarri, chief organiser of papal trips, says that "T-shirts, hats, scarves, balls, flowers, bandanas, photographs, letters, drawings, rosaries - and even a bishop's ring" were thrown into the Popemobile in Rio. Follow me on Twitter @lukecoppen for updates throughout the day
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