The Vatican is “working to clear up” why it was involved in a “rather opaque” London property deal, Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said. Gunmen have kidnapped a priest in Nigeria’s Enugu State. The number of Orthodox parishes in Latvia has increased by a third since 1992. Michael Brendan Dougherty says the Amazon synod was “dogged by the principle of contradiction”. Massimo Faggioli suggests that some US bishops “want to wait Francis out”. Fr Edmund Waldstein argues that the idea of an “internal papal schism” is “not really tenable”. And Steven Greydanus reviews By the Grace of God. Follow me on Twitter @lukecoppen for updates throughout the day.