You would think that no words are necessary. But in this day and age, where religion and any form of spirituality are under constant attack (very often rightly so), it seems safer to state that yes, you know the pope is the head of an institution that is responsible for a lot of wrong things and wrong views in the world, but that, in spite of all that, this gesture is still a beautiful one.
Yet I hope some day we will all be able to recognize beauty, inspiration, kindness... no matter where they come from, no matter who does it, no matter what the context. We should be prepared to see it everywhere, also in the places where and from the people of whom we least expect it. Because if there is beauty or compassion or inspiration somewhere, and we can't see it because our prejudices are blinding us, what hope could there be? How could we hope to multiply all that's good, if we cannot see it?
