Thursday digest

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New today from the Century:

• The editors on the pastoral pope: "Pope Francis understands that people are rarely argued into the church, but they are often loved into it."

• John Backman on Thérèse of Lisieux and mental health

• Joanna Harader on sharing communion in her father's hospice room

• A brief review of Alexander McCall Smith's book on Auden

In the news:

• Exonerated inmates push Ohio to scrap the death penalty