In his meeting with Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Pope Francis is not as likely to celebrate the Hungary-first tendencies of Mr. Orban and his ruling Fidesz Party.

This week on "Inside the Vatican," the hosts examine the health questions around Pope Francis' trip to Hungary and Slovakia.

It will be a demanding trip health-wise for the 84-year-old pontiff coming just two months after his colon operation on July 4.

Archbishop Koch said he regarded the double marginalization of Catholic gays — within the Catholic community as well as in the LGBTQ community — as “problematic and painful.”

Some activists in Hungary have reacted to an anti-L.G.B.T.Q. law by calling for an investigation of the clergy sexual abuse crisis, writes Marc Roscoe Loustau. But turning the crisis into a political football may backfire.

Fascism has proved sufficiently elastic to be used as a term of abuse across the political spectrum.