Weekly News Roundup 03/05/2021

This week the editors discuss:(1) a recent interview given by Benedict XVI to an Italian newspaper, (2) Pope Francis' trip to Iraq, (3) the end of mask mandates in the States of Texas, Mississippi, and Connecticut,(4) the troubling appointment of Cardinal Joseph Tobin to the Vatican Congregation for Bishops, and (5) a new book in which historic texts such as the Dubia (2016), Filial Correction (2017), and Open Letter to the Bishops (2019) are collected, together with essays in defense of them.