No chill discernible at the Vatican

Sir, – Only one headline could have further enhanced the uplifting photo of Barack Obama and the pope on your front page (March 28th), and that would have been your large headline on page 9 of the same paper: “Slight chill in air as Obama meets pope”. An excerpt from Paddy Agnew’s Rome report there – referring to the photo session – states that “the president was all smiles but his interlocutor remained sombre, serious and impassive”. Well ... as they say ... he could have fooled me!

Yours etc,

PADRAIG J O’CONNOR,

Lower Dodder Road,

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Rathfarnham,

Dublin 14