It was during that visit that the world saw howfrail Benedict had become in the three weeks since his emotional departure from the Apostolic Palace: Always a man with a purposeful walk, he shuffled tentatively that day, using his cane.
Not quite like performing in a school play, or preparing a Thanksgiving dinner, but at some point we get it, what Mr. Allen has been fussing about all these years that high hopes, like kisses, only make us forget howfrail, how imperfect we are, and alter nothing.