Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth has initiated a reform of his diocese’s pastoral practice in response to Pope Francis’s Amoris Laetitia.

In a pastoral letter read out in the diocese’s churches on Sunday, Bishop Egan said he would like both clergy and lay people to “review and develop our pastoral practice” concerning marriage.

The bishop added that the Pope’s apostolic exhortation “does not change Church discipline”, a reference to the issue of Communion for the divorced and remarried, but rather calls for a “new attitude”.