printThe front page of BBC News World, on Easter Day, March 31, 2013, says it all.
On what is “by far the most religiously significant” event in the Christian calender, the world’s secular saint—a former communist, terrorist, and ever the committed statist (provided those in charge of the state apparatus are black)—garners the first, very LARGE headline:
“Nelson Mandela’s condition ‘improves.'”
The second, more modest headline, small mercies, is: “Pope delivers Easter plea for peace.”
A news headline second in line to one about an avowed, former communist—secular saint of the West Nelson Mandela—is quite an achievement.
Go Pope.
