CAFOD Director Chris Bain writes:
On the rooftops around St Peter's Square, the world’s television media built makeshift studios with powerful camera lenses fixed onto a simple red copper chimney stack. In the Square itself I joined Catholics from all over the world chatting and making friends, sharing coffee and pizza and umbrellas. Twice we looked up in anticipation, only to see black smoke swirling from the chimney, a sight greeted with disappointed sighs from both the pilgrims and the seasoned Vatican watchers.
