For the last few months, I have been pondering the question why the present Pope is so keen on making saints — at least 465 at the last count and some 1,300 beatifications, more than all the canonisations and beatifications in the preceding 400 years. —Anne Sebba —Go Straight to Heaven (Spectator)

Once again, satire mazine The Onion spots a story long before anyone else. See: “Aging Pope ‘Just Blessing Everything in Sight,’ Say Concerned Handlers” (that last one will probably be offensive to Catholics without a sense of humor, and possibly even to those with…).