Please: the truth about the Pope’s healthWouldn’t it be nice if the Vatican simply told us the truth about the Pope’s health?Last Wednesday, when the Pope was hospitalized, the Vatican press office reassured us that he was going in for “previously scheduled” tests. The next day we were told he was suffering from a respiratory infection, and by the weekend, as the Pope was released, the word was that he had been treated for “severe bronchitis.”In an excellent analysis of “The Pope’s Mysterious Hospitalisation”, Vatican journalist Edward Pentin lists the questions raised by these explanations:If the Pope’s original hospitalization had...