Benedict XVI presented Cardinal Angelo Scola, the new Archbishop of Milan, with the pallium at Castel Gandolfo this morning. The Pope broke with tradition and did not hold a weekly general audience today in order to prepare for his trip to Germany (video). Archbishop Rainer-Maria Woelki of Berlin has told Vatican Radio that he is proud to welcome the Pope back to his homeland tomorrow. George Weigel gives the thumbs-up to Fr Robert Barron's monumental new television series, Catholicism. Joe Heschmeyer analyses the impact of Catholic teaching on the spreads of Aids in Africa. And novelist Jay Parini says it's time that G K Chesterton "was taken seriously as a major critic and biographer, a thinker of sharp wit and deep learning".