Anyone googling the name Vincent Nichols will notice in the secular media what assiduous readers of The Tablet’s news columns have already observed. The eleventh Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster has been busy. For a while he seemed to follow the policy of his mentor Cardinal Basil Hume – that scarcity of media appearances only increases the public’s appetite. Or he may simply have been around long enough for most editors to recognise the name as newsworthy.

His leadership of the international campaign against slavery and people trafficking brought him into alliance with Theresa May at the Home Office. But this does not seem to have silenced his critical tongue. In the Prime Minister’s presence he publicly rebuked the Government for the half-heartedness of its response to the problem of unaccompanied children in the Calais migrant camp.