I couldn’t help but feel a tingle of schadenfreude over the Pope’s pronouncement that Protestant churches ain’t the real thing. It underlines the reason why the bigot on the bridge is the funniest religious joke – it contains a thumping great nugget of truth at its heart.
And I’m sure that it is pure coincidence that BBC Three is showing Stigmata tonight, but it’s a very delicious irony, all the same.

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