Pillar of hope

Whatever prism you view the Pope’s inauguration through, only the most cynical could fail to be impressed by the spectacle, writes Catherine Shanahan in Rome

YOU COULD compare it a grand Italian Opera, or a medieval liturgical drama, or, the Catholic Church version of a British Royal Wedding.

But whatever prism you view the Pope’s inauguration through, only the most cynical could fail to be impressed by the spectacle.