It is surely too early to demand a pogrom against Roman Catholics, as some now wish, simply because the church now has an Argie pope. It is true that Pope Frankie is committed to the “return” of the Falkland Islands to his homeland and has spoken in the manner of a banana republic dictator about the war against the British:
‘We come to pray for all who have fallen, sons of the homeland who went out to defend their mother, the homeland, and to reclaim what is theirs, that is of the homeland, and it was usurped.’
But it is solipsistic to believe that the Vatican chose Jorge Borgoglio simply to annoy us and it may well be that the new pope acquires a degree of neutrality over the issue while he is busy concentrating on the more pressing problem of eliminating homosexuals and ripping up condoms. In the meantime we should treat our minority Roman Catholic population with kindness, understanding and indulgence, whilst quietly reminding them, every so often, that this sort of thing is why we had that schism in the first place.
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