Leicester City the new Premier League champions! It is scarcely believable. This is a team which barely survived in the league last season around, whose survival at the time was wondrous enough.
Whenever Pope Francis delivers a good speech or homily, my natural instinct is to assume that someone else wrote it. This happened as Pope Francis opened what is officially the synod on the family, although many have come to see it as the synod against the family.
Now that Mother Russia has entered the Syrian war, we can at long last begin to hope for an end in sight to this conflict which has claimed so many lives, with victory for the right side and the survival of the Assad government, which is supported by Christians in the region.