As Lent begins, the Burmese “can only cry over our people in exodus”, Cardinal Charles Bo has said. Cardinal Blase Cupich has invited US bishops to Amoris Laetitia seminars. Bulgarian ascetic Dobri Dobrev, known as the Saint of Bailovo, has died aged 103 (Wikipedia). Paul Moses argues that Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has been “effective in marginalising his country’s bishops”. Archbishop Charles Chaput says that on Ash Wednesday we must “smash our miserable little concordats with sin”. Mgr Charles Pope criticises the “vague understanding and use of the word ‘conscience’”. And James Gorman debunks the myth of St Gregory the Great and the rabbits. Follow me on Twitter @lukecoppen for updates throughout the day.