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Entrance of Pontificial Lateran University (CNS Photo/Paul Haring)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
For the first time in its 245 years, Pope Francis has appointed a married layman, Vincenzo Buonomo, to lead the university.
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis said, "Sport is a very rich source of values and virtues that help us to become better people."
Chilean Father Francisco Astaburuaga Ossa talks with the media May 23 in Santiago after receiving an invitation to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican to discuss the sexual abuse scandal. (CNS photo/Ivan Alvarado, Reuters)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
“The culture of abuse and cover-up is incompatible with the logic of the Gospel,” the pope wrote.
Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta participates in a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this June 29, 2015, file photo. Archbishop Scicluna was sent by Pope Francis to investigate clerical sexual abuse in Chile. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) 
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
In another surprise decision, Pope Francis has decided to send Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta and Msgr. Jordi Bertomeu to Chile.
FaithNews
Catholic News Service
"I came to this world very humble and poor, and I want to die poor as well," said Bolivian cardinal-designate Toribio Ticona Porco.
Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, as they arrive for a meeting in the synod hall at the Vatican in this Feb. 13, 2015, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) 
Politics & SocietyLast Take
Simcha Fisher
Righteous call-outs should be patterned after Cardinal O’Malley’s rebuke of Pope Francis on sex abuse.