EDWARD PENTIN, Rome correspondent for The National Catholic Register reports on the latest Church news including the German bishops' apparent defiance of Rome on the subject of synodal process, Cardinal Pell's final appeal to overturn sex abuse convictions. MARY ANN GLENDON, professor of Law at Harvard University and recently appointed Chair of the US Commission on Unalienable Rights joins us to talk about the focus and the scope of the new commission and the role of "natural law" in protecting global human rights. DAMIAN THOMPSON, associate editor of The Spectator in the UK on Pope Francis comments on life imprisonment for criminals and the growing talk of schism in the lead-up to the October Synod on the Amazon.