In keeping with the sports metaphors (for which I am becoming known even in South Bend), Whispers in the Loggia has scored in announcing to a still somnolent America the gaudium magnum of the newly elected Father-General of "this least Society:"

The septuagenarian Fr Adolfo Nicolas -- the head of the Jesuit Conference of East Asia and Oceania -- has been elected the 30th Father-General of the Society of Jesus and confirmed in the post by Benedict XVI.