Joe who?

Roads closed. Traffic diverted. Police escorts. Tram moved. Road resurfaced. Lampposts painted.

No money to fix the roads elsewhere. Cuts to every budget imaginable and massive disruption to the people who are paying for all this, no matter if they are a Catholic or not.

Somehow though, money is found that can be wasted on a visit by the big cheese of the Catholic Church.

Corruption, child abuse (and the cover ups) and total irrelevance in modern life means nothing.

An HIV epidemic that contraception can help stop? Don't be daft... the big book says... "Blah blah blah"

Thousands of Scots will be a Catholic for the day.... then revert to their totally un-catholic lifestyle straight after the pope mobile disappears. The people of Glasgow will wallow in the after effects for days. I wonder how many of them will end up in A&E - or dead - during the unavoidable massive increase in sectarianism that will surely follow. Years of effort by the governments of Scotland to rid this country of one of its most embarrassing facets wiped out.

The 'religious-for-a-day' types (You know the ones. Only a Catholic when a Protestant is in the vicinity, hates that Protestant but doesn't have any idea why) will then relax back into their science-enhanced lives that Joe Ratzinger and his like fight against.

Religion should be left where it thinks we should all live. In the past.

For those who still wish to follow it? It should be done in private and should not be shoved down the throats of the intelligent people who realise that science is the only thing worthy of worship.