Jesus gives "gives everyone a fundamental rule", Pope Francis said at yesterday's Angelus (full text, full video).
Cardinal Marc Ouellet has said that the Church is facing a crisis "and also to certain extent a rebellion".
We are at "a watershed" moment in Church history, Cardinal Blase Cupich has said.
The Russian Orthodox Church has suspended liturgical prayers for the Patriarch of Constantinople (Metropolitan Hilarion).
Jonathan Last argues that "two abdications in a row would have the practical effect of breaking the modern papacy".
