We don’t have to be very sharp to notice that our congregation is rather rich: together we have quite a lot of silver. Sometimes it’s covered, sometimes dyed, and sometimes invisible like mine, because I’m clean-shaven and my hairdo is very short. In other words, our congregation is not particularly diverse age-wise. We are not unique here; it’s the same…

Sometimes I’m being accused. Of leniency. Of being too soft with lapsed Catholics, when they request baptism for their child, or their wedding, or a Catholic funeral for a deceased relative. Sometimes practising Christians seem to expect me to adopt a stricter and tougher approach, leading either to the refusal of requests from the lapsed or to the extraction of…

I left you for less than four weeks, and what have you done in the meantime at the General Election? I went to Poland to save the Presidential election there, but that effort too failed spectacularly, as it was not won by my candidate. My enormous authority is now in tatters, both there and here. And – just in case…