In a surprise move, Donald Trump 2-3 days ago announced that the U.S. was pulling out of Syria, completely out of the blue.
It is difficult to know whether this is Donald Trump realising that the U.S. attempt to use Islamists in Syria to oust Bashar A-Assad has failed, or whether it is part of a grander scheme. The American and European establishments are against the move, predictably so.
Many today will pick off the terrorist event in France as the top news, but in the greater scheme of things, the big event is the interview by Cardinal Burke given a few days ago, and which forms a substantial amount of today's links. In it he decries the feminisation of the Church and sees it as responsible for the man-problem in the Church - few men attend Church and those that do often seem non-committal.