Pope Francis was spot-on when he pointed out last week that there was more than a whiff of totalitarianism about the European Commission’s bizarre instructions to its administrators essentially to airbrush Christianity from everything they officially said or wrote. If you have forgotten, this document, entitled Guidelines for Inclusive Communication (available here), included advice to refer to Christmas as “holidays”, not to be seen to promote marriage, and to downplay personal names with a Christian heritage. It has now been hurriedly withdrawn.