Catholics are failing to defend the family because they are too focused on Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia, Vatican Cardinal Kevin Farrell has said.

Amoris Laetitia must be interpreted "in continuity with the preceding magisterium", a Spanish bishop has told his flock.

The Russian Orthodox Church has said it will only baptise children of surrogates after a period of parental penance.

Giving money to beggars can sustain "a very unhealthy and degrading lifestyle", Bishop Thomas Tobin of Rhode Island has said.