Pope Francis encouraged a girl with autism to share the stage with him at yesterday’s general audience (Junno Arocho Esteves, video). India has refused to renew the visa of an 86-year-old Spanish nun who has served the poor for five decades. The Church in Burundi has opened its first saints’ causes. Thousands have attended the burial of a murdered priest in Nigeria. John Allen, Matthew Schmitz, Fr Hugh Somerville-Knapman, Fr Raymond de Souza, George Weigel and Michael Sean Winters comment on the Cardinal Pell ruling. Alexandre Tsung-ming Chen asks what closer Vatican-China ties mean for Taiwan. And Joseph Pearce wonders what happened to the Catholic Literary Revival. Follow me on Twitter @lukecoppen for updates throughout the day.