Hello Reader, I was at a school in Harare this week and, as I hurried absent-mindedly down a corridor, I caught sight of a picture that made me look twice. It was a portrait of Robert Francis Prevost, who was elected Pope in 2025. Then it occurred to me that I was walking through a Catholic school. A picture of the Pope on the wall was, in fact, not unusual at all. I am the sort of person who tends to fixate on things I do not fully understand. Seeing that picture reminded me of a public...