The Cause of Boys Town founder Fr Edward Flanagan is being sent to Rome. The Archdiocese of Sydney has written to companies that publicly support same-sex marriage expressing “grave concern” at their position. Residents of the Bolivian capital La Paz are being offered an 80 per cent cut in property taxes if they spruce up their homes before next month's papal visit. Andrea Gagliarducci, Rocco Palmo, Edward Pentin, Michael Sean Winters and Fr John Zuhlsdorf discuss the Instrumentum Laboris of this October's family synod. Fr Robert Barron says the 20th-century theologian Romano Guardini had a powerful influence on Laudato Si'. Kathleen Hawkins profiles a priest who had his hands blown off by a letter bomb. And the Vatican Museums have turned to an English tattoo removal firm for help in cleaning up sculptures. Follow me on Twitter @lukecoppen for updates throughout the day.