A priest kidnapped by jihadists in Yemen has attributed his survival to prayer. An Argentine court has sentenced two priests to more than 40 years in prison for abusing deaf children. The Pope’s personal secretary will leave the post in December. A Japanese boxer who converted to Catholicism on death row attended yesterday’s papal Mass in Tokyo. The Two Popes director Fernando Meirelles has suggested that Benedict XVI is “not very different from Pope Francis actually”. Joshua McElwee says that before Francis it seems that “only one other Jesuit had ever led a Vatican office”. And Alexis Petridis reviews Kanye West’s biblical opera, Nebuchadnezzar. Follow me on Twitter @lukecoppen for updates throughout the day.