Pope Leo... moved among the pilgrims in wheelchairs, holding hands and leaning into faces with his hands cupped over his ear so he could hear their voices above the hub- bub.

AS HIS FRIENDS will be unsurprised to hear, Dr Kieran Moriarty admits that when he met the Pope in Lourdes last Sunday outside the Accueil Notre-Dame, “I did all the talking.” He told us: “The Pope just listened and nodded. I kept thinking that he would want to move on, but he stayed to listen.” The consultant physician, who wrote the report that led to the sudden cure of Jack Traynor in 1923 finally being formally recognised as a miracle, said it was a private moment and “I did not mention Traynor or anything to do with cures”.

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