Dear Pope Francis...

...In addition to resolving the child abuse, corruption and banking scandals, will you shed infallibility and extend an olive branch to Christians in the east to unite the Church once more? asks AN Wilson

THE joy spread, first around the square, and then around the world. The feeling was relief that we have a new man.

“You know, the work of the conclave is to give a bishop to Rome,” said the new Pope Francis, as he stood on the balcony in front of the faithful. “It seems as if my brother cardinals went to find him from the end of the Earth. But here we are.”