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The new king of the Catholics

At the risk of being excommunicated or some such thing, I have noted that the knew addition to the Vatican throne does not share the benign expression of his predecessor. In fact, I think he would look rather good in the part of Dracula. It’s those dark areas under his eyes which don’t do him any favours in this respect. He looks a little like the kind of guy you may have found if you were on the receiving end of the Spanish inquisition. I know it’s bad to go judging books by their covers and all that, but you do, don’t you?

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About Alex Roe

Alex Roe is from the UK, but has lived and worked in Milan, Italy for more than a decade. He founded Italy Chronicles in 2005 as Blog from Italy. Alex is a Business Insider Europe contributor.

When not working on Italy Chronicles, Alex teaches English at a business school in Milan, translates, writes articles for other web sites and runs training courses.

Alex tweets news and information about Italy to his 7400+ Twitter followers via @newsfromitaly.

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