Pope Francis reportedly used a homophobic slur to refer to a gay culture in the Vatican and warned it would not be prudent to admit young men with homosexual tendencies to seminaries.

Michael R. Lovell had been battling sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, for three years. He died June 9 in Italy while on a Jesuit formation pilgrimage with members of the Society of Jesus and the Jesuit university’s board of trustees.

Do you have to believe in God to go to church? I used to think so. But more agnostics should give religion a try.

The number was even smaller for former President Donald Trump, with just 4% of respondents seeing Trump, a non-denominational Christian, as “very religious.”

A Reflection for Friday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke