Middle-class anxiety informed some of the choice of news coverage last week. “Children who fail to visit their frail elderly parents for months at a time will go to Hell, the Pope said.” That was the Daily Mail’s interpretation of his words “before 20,000 people in St Peter’s Square” last week. “He told a story of how when Archbishop of Buenos Aires he visited a care home and spoke to elderly residents. He asked one woman if she was visited by her children and was told: ‘Oh yes, always.’ Francis asked when was the last time her children came and was told: ‘At Christmas.’ The Pope said: ‘It was August’.”It was at this point that he commented: “Eight months without a visit from her children. This is a