Listening to Jesus helps you to “carry out well the tasks that life assigns to you", Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Germany’s Catholic Church lost 216,078 members in 2018. Priests in Kerala have called off a protest against Cardinal George Alencherry. Herdsmen have attacked a priest in Nigeria. Anthony Esolen attempts to draw up “a set of fundamentals that all Catholics can agree upon”. Jessica Arena profiles a priest “who never gives up”. And Hollywood director Roxann Dawson explains why she became a Catholic. Follow me on Twitter @lukecoppen for updates throughout the day.