One of the nice things about Pope Francis is that he’s not at his best with VIPs; in their company, he takes on a lugubrious look. With ordinary people, he’s different. When he said Mass at a sports stadium in Abu Dhabi for a congregation made up largely of migrant workers from southern India and the Philippines, his face lit up in the crowd. But it was because of the government that the Mass could take place. At the end of the Mass, Bishop Paul Hinder, the Vicar Apostolic in the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia, thanked Crown Prince Mohammed for allowing the Mass to happen, and the congregation broke into applause. It’s not like this across the border in Saudi Arabia.