So the author if Laudato si! has appeared at a papal mass in Madagascar wearing a chasuble with leopard skin orphreys. Hardy a fashion statement, Francis in the frankly fake (alliterative as it is) was also a grotesque miscalculation: there are no leopards in Madagascar. But the hunting theme could catch on.

Wits are already asking what he will wear next. A seal skin chasuble in the arctic? A grisly bear outfit in the Canadian Rockies? And what will he wear in the Amazon? And will he take his wife?