Morning Catholic must-reads: 06/05/16

“We are not alone” in our pain, Pope Francis said at the Prayer Vigil to “Dry the Tears” yesterday (full video).

The Pope will accept the Charlemagne Prize today.

Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney is returning to work four months after an autoimmune condition left him paralysed.

Anthony Annett, Rick Garnett, Tom Roberts and Michael Sean Winters comment on the US bishops’ religious freedom video.

Massimo Faggioli says that Pope Francis’s “social justice Catholicism” does not “signal a retreat from the culture wars” (Carl Trueman).

Jeff Clarke argues that “non-liturgically based” denominations should embrace the liturgy (Rita Ferrone).

And Aleteia publishes a letter from a priest to his niece before her First Holy Communion.

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