Pandora reports that...

A senior Vatican insider discloses that the Prime Minister's other half, a devout Roman Catholic, has been discreetly approached about joining the prestigious Pontifical Academy Of Social Sciences, to sit as one of its resident academicians, advising the church on social and legal issues.

I am not one for such patronage usually, perhaps especially for Cherie Blair with all her public gaffes and overinflated opinion of the role of Prime Minister's spouse, but given some of the cases she has argued for, I find it quite surprising that the Vatican might consider her for such a post, and if she really is offered it, she should take it, as long as she vows to promote some of the liberal and equalities causes she has done. Could it signify some softening on the part of the Vatican on social issues like divorce, homosexuality, gender equality and so on?