It was just an errant breeze across St. Peter’s Square that lifted the Pope’s cap into the air above the Vatican today, and not a mischievous magpie or an impish angel playing frisbee with the convenient circular beanie. And certainly not a geographically-challenged dybbuk mistaking the Pontiff’s cap for a Rabbi’s yarmulke, although the resemblance is undeniable.

The perfectly timed photograph, courtesy of Andrew Medichini of Associated Press, showed up in this morning’s CNN’s 5 Things, providing me with my first laugh on this mild St. Patrick’s Day. It’s so unexpected, so spontaneous, so adorably human . . . and I just had to share it.

Happy Sunday, all.

Brendochka
3/17/24