The coronavirus pandemic appears to have caused a rift between the Pope and the Vatican, and bishops and cardinals across Italy. Members of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) have been urging the Government to ease restrictions on churchgoers to allow them to attend mass as the lockdown begins to be lifted next week. But in a message to the faithful to celebrate Saint Martha on Wednesday, the Pope appeared to send a clear message to the CEI when he called for "obedience" from churchgoers.