Archbishop Mark Coleridge has said he hopes that the High Court’s judgment on the Cardinal Pell case will “bring clarity and a resolution for all”. A Syrian hospital supported by Malteser International has been hit by airstrikes. The number of men enrolling in Poland’s seminaries this year is 20 per cent lower than in 2018. Belgium’s bishops have criticised proposals to relax the country’s abortion laws (French report). PJ Smith argues that Pope Francis has “heightened contradictions inherent in John Paul’s magisterium”. Richard Yoder says an 18th-century Church controversy has uncanny parallels today. And Elizabeth Lemme urges Catholics to study “the Maria Lactans message”. Follow me on Twitter @lukecoppen for updates throughout the day.