Pope Francis addresses members of the Roman Rota in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall Jan. 29, 2021.

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Pope Francis addresses members of the Roman Rota in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall Jan. 29, 2021.

In his annual speech to the members of the Roman Rota, the pope stressed that judges in the Vatican courts were “called to be open to the horizons of this difficult but not impossible pastoral care, which relates to the concern for the children as innocent victims of many situations of breakup, divorce, or new civil unions.”