Cardinal Beniamino Stella has said that the Church should consider ordaining married men in response to a “sacramental emergency”. The Vatican’s verdict on Sodalitium Christianae Vitae founder Luis Fernando Figari “will be released in less than a month”, Pope Francis has said (full text). A US archdiocese is launching a five-year pastoral plan to combat addiction to pornography. Archbishop Terence Prendergast says it’s “logically impossible” for Justin Trudeau to reconcile his Catholicism with his support for abortion. Edward Pentin says the Vatican has no plans to overhaul its honours system. Massimo Faggioli argues that the ”entire ideological landscape of Catholicism” is being reshaped. And Jeffrey Essmann explains how preparing children for First Holy Communion brought him back to Eucharistic adoration. Follow me on Twitter @lukecoppen for updates throughout the day.
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