"The culture wars are real," Cardinal Pell has said in his first major interview after leaving prison. (Full interview, analysis by CC Pecknold.) A supposed phone call from the Pope to a religious sister on the coronavirus front line was in fact a hoax. Footage of the Pope holding up a bottle of Scotch and proclaiming it “the real water of life” was censored by the Vatican, the Times reports. An Italian bishop has publicly challenged the country's coronavirus restrictions. Rio’s Christ the Redeemer has been lit up as a doctor.