DEUS CARITAS EST

How Ridiculous is not sure whether The Holy Father will have a view on the Sven story but let us at least hope that in this picture he is not asking: 'What's that?', as The Queen Mother is reported to have done when she saw an ironing board.

Anyway, The Pope's first encyclical has just been published. Its 42 paragraphs are On Christian Love and it concludes with the saints and with the most outstanding of them all, Mary.

No doubt Marys throughout the world will be hailing that.