Flee from women and bishops” was the sage advice John Cassian gave his monks. Most of us are not monks, and Cassian’s view of women deserves a treatment of its own, but it’s hard not to feel that giving bishops and their affairs a wide berth may be a good defence of spiritual sanity just at the moment.

Keeping up with the furore swirling around Theodore McCarrick, and the accusations against Pope Francis, is making me sick.