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Pope Francis talks with Fra Matthew Festing, grand master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, during a private audience with members of the order at the Vatican in this June 23, 2016, file photo. (CNS photo/Maria Grazia Picciarella, pool)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The appointment of a special delegate raises the question of what will happen to Cardinal Burke. He is still cardinal-patron of the order but no longer the pope’s sole interlocutor with the order.
FaithShort Take
Tom Acemoglu
People are more likely to be open to hearing the truth if they know you occasionally feed them and give them free babysitting.
Faith
Terrance Klein
Christ and his saints have a different way of calculating a thing’s worth
FaithFaith in Focus
Shannon Evans
Young and old, educated and mentally impaired, healthy and addicted, they wrapped strong and weak arms around us and they held us up.
Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, general secretary of the Synod of Bishops, and Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, holds a copy of Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on the family, "Amoris Laetitia" ("The Joy of Love"), during a news conference for the document's release at the Vatican April 8, 2016. The exhortation is the concluding document of the 2014 and 2015 synods of bishops on the family. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated PressGeir Moulson - Associated Press
A statement from the German bishops' conference "opens the possibility of receiving the sacraments of reconciliation and the Eucharist."
FaithFeatures
Jim McDermott
An Ethiopian family arrived in Malta as refugees. A Jesuit community welcomed them.