‘For weeks now, it has been evening’

‘For weeks now, it has been evening’
‘For weeks now, it has been evening’

Pope Francis in an empty St. Peter’s Square in the dark and rain – for many, it was one of the most memorable images of the early COVID-19 shutdown.

That was five years ago now. The footage of the Pope offered us a chance to stop and reflect on what was happening and what it might mean. There’s no real evidence that we have learned what might have been a helpful lesson from the pandemic: Nothing in…