“The pope seemed to say that the church must deal with the world it lives in, not the world it wants. He sometimes sounded less like a pontiff than a marriage counselor.” In a lengthy and much-anticipated treatise on love and marriage, Pope Francis offers hope to divorced Catholics, says no to gay marriage. (We’ve got enough problems figuring out how to limit hate without judging the way people decide to love.)

+ WaPo: Key points of the new document.