Another e-mail from Down Under:

With regards to WYD, and the story from your correspondent in Sydney, somebody was giving a speech at a dinner last week at a church function here in Melbourne. He pointed out that the Pope had said that the Blessed Mary MacKillop needed one more miracle to be canonised. He then noted that in the last week both the ABC and the Fairfax papers (think left-wing versions of the New York Times) had started running favourable stories about World Youth Day as opposed to the previous weeks stories which concentrated on sexual abuse by the clergy. That, he pointed out, must surely qualify as a miracle.