Pope Francis has done it again. He has got himself into the news – on social media – by turning up at a record shop in Rome to spend 10 minutes browsing among the LPs like a normal citizen. As teenagers are keenly aware, vinyl is very much of the moment, so the Pope is on-trend. He’s also authentic – he loves classical music and talks about it knowledgeably.
It’s not the only time the Pope has got headlines lately. He effortlessly generated any amount of comment on social and conventional media when he declared at a Vatican audience that it was “a kind of selfishness” for couples to have dogs or cats rather than children. Whatever the merits of the argument – and many Catholics in Britain would instinctively protest that it is good to have both – he created a stir.
