text: His eminence is correct that bishops should take a coordinated approach to the matter. 
  
  And they would do well, then, to follow the pattern set by Archbishop Chaput. His diocese's guidelines (http://bit.ly/2eRrUP2) seem to be a model of reconciling pastoral compassion and mercy with a fidelity to moral truth. 
  
  This would have the advantage of closing off any mistaken notion that Mother Church is about to tacitly consider marriage impermanent, a notion corrosive to the family.