Though the little I tend to have to say - and (God willing) still will in days and weeks and months and years to come - vis-a-vis The European Union and the Papacy itself (as an institution - if not necessarily Pope Francis as a person), will rarely be all that flattering let alone endearing, full marks:
*To the EU for finally authorizing giving the flick to biorhythm-unfriendly daylight saving - or rather, going back-and-forth between regular (normal) time and dst...in future, from the end of 2019 evidently. Enough technological contrivance to mess with us and our bodies and bodily cycles already - okay! Yes, this'll not affect me or mine one little bit - but my sympathies are/empathy is with my fellows (and lasses) in that tension-fraught 'continent'...for this smallest of mercies, anyhow.
*To Pope Francis for having the guts and gumption and sheer gall - yes, I'm only too well aware I used this very (personally-selected) phrase just the other day/blogpost - to address the Mafia on their own turf. Whatever one happens to think of the Vatican (and the Roman Catholic Church for that matter) you can't convince me that that didn't take more than a modicum of pure, unadulterated guts.
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