US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will deliver a 10-minute speech at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences today (John Allen, Massimo Faggioli). The Church should abandon "just war" theory, participants at a Vatican conference have urged. If the Egyptian government bans the full veil it must also forbid Christian women from wearing crosses, a professor at al-Azhar University has said. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has set out new rules for church construction and renovation in the Archdiocese of Manila. "We too are living in a time of martyrdom," Pope Francis has told seminarians at the Pontifical Scots College (video). Archbishop Charles ChaputArchbishop José Gomez, Fr Dwight Longenecker and Pedro de Rezende and Ketty Rezende reflect on Amoris Laetitia. And Diego López Marina speaks to "the world's happiest nuns". Follow me on Twitter @lukecoppen for updates throughout the day.
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