Well here is something off the wires that I think is absolutely magnificent and beautiful crafted.  It is an image from AFP/Getty Images showing a statue is St. Peter’s Square silhouetted agasinst the sun.  The image was taken just before Pope Francis’ general audience.  Of course, this is filled with classical allusions.  The disk of the sun is like a saints halo in a renaissance painting and the foreboding clouds are reminiscent of a painting by Michaelangelo, or perhaps of Giorgione’s “The Tempest.” The one incongruity in the scene, which only makes the photograph ever more wonderful is the scaffolding and ropes on the statue.  Here is the sacred and there is the profane.