Pope Francis has given us the definitive – indeed Magisterial – message of today’s Gospel about the feeding of the 5000. OUT go all references to Jesus feeding us, to bread, to any spiritual aspects of this miracle. But IN comes…

“Eat up your greens! Or do something else with them.”

Coming soon is the Pope Francis Recipe Book, with a whole chapter on what to do with your leftover fish and bread. Eat it yourself (“we never thought of that”), turn it into something different (“if we had some roast beef, we could make it into roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, if we had some Yorkshire pudding”), give it to the poor (“Fish and bread? You joking, guv? The Anglicans are offering us gluten-free vegetarian…