Leaders must "act decisively and quickly to stop" migrants dying in the Mediterranean, Pope Francis said at yesterday's Regina Caeli (full text, full video). Traffickers' "unjust gains" should be "reused for the rehabilitation of their victims", the Pope said on Saturday (full text and video). John Allen, Rocco Palmo and George Weigel pay tribute to the late Cardinal Francis George. Ross Douthat asks if Francis will break the Church. Cardinal Donald Wuerl and John Garvey say a new law in Washington DC would force the Church to "abandon its beliefs in the pursuit of an entirely novel state of equality". David Olusoga argues the Pope was wrong to call the Armenian massacre the first genocide of the 20th century. And Luca Marcolivio tells the story of Pope Francis and a terminally ill seminarian that has moved Italians. Follow me on Twitter @lukecoppen for updates throughout the day.I'm
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