Eleventh commandment should be ‘thou shalt not complain’. Ever

Unlike most previous Popes, Francis doesn’t buzz off to Castel Gandolfo for a cool holiday during these summer months, when Rome becomes a swelter of stickiness. 

He stays put in Vatican City, working away, sleeping in an apartment there. A sign was recently affixed to the door leading to that apartment, courtesy of His Holiness. It reads thus: ‘Complaining is forbidden.

Offenders are subject to a system of victimhood that reduces their sense of humour and capacity to solve problems.