The Pope is coming to Lebanon (again, I mean different pope but same visit!). So naturally, there is a tone of ads on the streets to welcome him. A certain campaign however has taken as many OOH as allowable (and then some!). "Blessed are the peacemakers" (for those who do not know it continues "for they are the sons of God"). Same in Arabic. Well, as I said this is not the first visit by a Pope to Lebanon. Paul VI in 1964, John Paul II in 1997, and Benedict XVI in 2012. The first visit, Paul VI was a stopover at the airport which generated enormous buzz for small school children to go and see him at the airport. My late mother, who at the time was a teacher at Sagesse school got a notifier for her students and herself to undergo the airport trip. Mother, who just wanted an afternoon off, went to the head of the school arguing it was exhausting over and above all else, and then ended her plea with "a la prochaine!" ("we'll see him next time". As luck would have it, she did see the John Paul II 1997 mass - but hey, a promise is a promise).