The heads of state and government from 27 countries arrived to the Vatican, one by one, under extraordinary security measures that included anti-aircraft weapons.
The refugee problem and economic crisis had actually caused a tremor great enough for the EU to collapse. However, all the leaders sitting in front of magnificent Michelangelo paintings were gradually coming to understand that the problem did not consist of this.
The pope gathered all the leaders like they were his children in the Sistine Chapel, one of the world's most grandiose sanctuaries, and they had a family photograph taken. While smiling at each other's faces, they wanted to ignore a fact: The pain of holy Rome was not a simple tummy ache. Like the pope said, they had caught serious diseases.