Pope Francis expressed concern over “increasing tensions in the Persian Gulf” at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Archbishop Michel Aupetit has celebrated the first Mass in Notre-Dame since April’s fire. More allegations have been levelled against Archbishop Luigi Ventura, the Apostolic Nuncio to France. Filipino bishops have denounced China’s “continuous bullying of the Philippines”. The Eritrean government has reportedly ordered the Church to hand over its health centres. Michael McKinley talks to a millennial inventing a new religion. And Vivian Cabrera profiles a graffiti artist who created a giant mural of St Thomas Aquinas. Follow me on Twitter @lukecoppen for updates throughout the day.