Want better music at Mass? Leave it to the professionals (and pay them).

Cardinal Pell was referring to recent comments about sexuality by Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg and Bishop Georg Baetzing, the head of the German bishops’ conference.

What a 1965 novel by Graham Greene taught a young Dr. Paul Farmer during his first years working in Haiti.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell and host Colleen Dulle explain the changes to the C.D.F. and how they fit into Pope Francis’ larger goal of evangelization.

That may indeed happen, and if it does, you will immediately, intuitively know this: You are going to be purified.

Myles Connolly on American Catholic writers: “I can’t read them, and few others can, for the simple reason that I and the others do not care to be bored.”