But that's NOT really an issue, nor can it be made into a bona fide issue!  And that alone would both prompt and justify papal silence.   Pope Francis is not a policeman, in the style of his two immediate predecessors.  And the nature of conjugal intimacy in particular cases is both private and confidential, and does not easily lend itself to hard and fast rules such as would please right-wing cardinals who have revealed their intent to "correct this pope" if his response or non-response does not satisfy them.