Chesterton said that journalism is mostly “saying ‘Lord Jones is dead,’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive”. I was reminded of this when a journalist from a national newspaper called me this week. Someone had given my name to him because he said he was writing about the death of Fr Gabriele Amorth. In the Catholic world this holy man was to exorcism (or at least the public perception of it), what Mary Berry is to cupcakes, having written two bestsellers about his work as the “Vatican’s chief exorcist”.