Morning Catholic must-reads: 24/10/14

Francis will celebrate Mass on All Saints’ Day at Rome’s Campo Verano cemetery.

The Pope has reduced the territory under the jurisdiction of Montecassino Abbey and appointed a new abbot.

Filipino prisoners have invited Pope Francis to visit them during his trip to the Philippines in January.

Governments must not rely on “pre-conceived one-size-fits-all solutions” to tackling poverty, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the UN has said.

Rorate Caeli argues that voting on the synod’s final report marked a “great and unprecedented defeat” for the Pope.

Fr James Martin SJ says that “schism was not on the agenda of any of the bishops” at the synod.

And a tap-dancing duel between two American priests has gone viral on the internet.

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