Paper Monitor
11:40 UK time, Friday, 15 March 2013
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
It's hard to avoid celibacy. Well the discussion of it.
Metro splashes on . The paper plays it straight but allows a hint of melodrama to suffuse proceedings.
The man's lawyer tells a court:
"So deeply in love was he that he was prepared to ignore the Catholic Church's ban on marriage, a secret which has been kept from almost everyone until now."
The courtroom then appears to morph into a Hollywood set. Did the collective intake of breath cause the jury to faint?
The lawyer - surely in a hushed tone - adds: "No, you didn't mis-hear me."
The couple were allegedly married on a Greek island and told only close friends. They didn't live together but went away on holidays: "Far from being celibate, they enjoyed a full and active sex life," the lawyer says in a tone of voice that one can only speculate about.
So that's one way to handle celibacy.
In stark contrast, the new pope dismissed thoughts of romance early on, according to the Daily Telegraph.
On its front page, of unrequited love for young Pope Francis. Or Jorge as he was aged 12.
"The childhood sweetheart of Pope Francis disclosed yesterday that she had been forced to reject his boyhood offer of marriage, which eventually led him to devote his life to God."
Wow. That's some cause and effect. It almost beats that butterfly in China.
Anyway, the woman "known only as Amalia" says she received love notes from young Jorge. She even got a drawing of a house. "He had drawn for me a house which had a red roof and said that it was the house he was going to buy for me when we were married."
Then what happened?
I think we all know this is one story that doesn't end, "Reader, I married him." But you still want to hear the rest, right?
Well folks, Amalia's parents took a dim view of young love. They kept her away from Jorge. When he heard the news, he allegedly told her:
"If I can't marry you, I'll become a priest."
You can hear the voiceover as the violins begin to gently weep: "Reader, I never saw him again. And 64 years later he became pope."
Credits roll.
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