Cardinal Oswald Gracias has said that Narendra Modi “reacted positively” to a request to invite Pope Francis to India. The Pope has called the mother of assassinated Brazilian activist Marielle Franco. John Allen, Andrea Gagliarducci, Jason Horowitz, Phil Lawler, Edward Pentin, Fr Thomas Reese SJ and Andrea Tornielli analyse “Lettergate”. Fr Thomas Rausch SJ, Richard Rex and Michael Sean Winters review Ross Douthat’s To Change the Church. Fr Anthony Ruff weighs up Pope Francis’s comments on Holy Communion. Greg Sheridan highlights the “paradox of the average Catholic parish in Australia”. And Niall Gooch says that Brideshead Revisited is “not a straightforward exercise in pro-Catholic propagandising”. Follow me on Twitter @lukecoppen for updates throughout the day.