If he had said it a week earlier, it might have had no coverage at all in the British secular press, but this week The Guardian reported the call in Pope Francis’ Angelus address in Rome, for “every Catholic parish, convent, monastery and sanctuary in Europe to shelter a family”.Reporting of the great movement of homeless people from Syria across Europe was utterly transformed last week by photographs of the lifeless body of three-year-old Alan Kurdi (whose name was at first thought to be Aylan) on the Turkish shore. Public sympathy fed into the scenes of thousands of migrants held up in Hungary on their journey from Turkey via Greece to Germany.There has been “a failure of compassion”, Peter Wilby had written in the issue of the New Statesman dated 4 Septemb