Pope Francis says the Church needs to accompany couples and families in a variety of pastoral situations. It could be the unmarried, divorced or those simply struggling. This, however, can require patience and a sense of humour, as Cardinal Vincent Nichols recalled this week. The cardinal told the story of how, as a young priest in Liverpool, he visited an unmarried couple with two children. They were talking on the doorstep of the house. “I was saying to them, ‘Why don’t you get married, you’ve been together for 10 years and you’ve got two kids, and it would add something,’” the cardinal explained at a press conference in London on Tuesday, adding that he had told the story at some point when he was in Rome during the synod. The cardinal said the