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Summer is the season for taking the foot off the peddle (slightly) so this week John and Shane took it a tad easy and we are sharing another news magazine podcast this week looking at a number of issues including the on-going persecution of the church in Nicaragua personified in the person of Bishop Ronaldo Alvarez, worrying trends in India, and the Pillar's excellent analysis of the recent announcement of the proposed consistory on Sept 30th for the creation of 21 new cardinals. 

• The Pillar - Catholics in Goa threatened by calls to ‘wipe out’ history of Portuguese presence
• The Pillar - How talks to free Nicaragua’s Bishop Álvarez failed
• Vatican News - Pope Francis announces Consistory for creation of new Cardinals
• The Pillar - By the numbers: Pope Francis and the College of Cardinals
• The Pillar - Can the new cardinals vote yet?
• CNA - WYD is an invitation to young people to experience God, explains future Portuguese cardinal

We have our regular run through the up-coming liturgical odds and ends including the saints of the weeks and of course our reflection on this weeks Sunday  gospel (Mathew 13:1-23).