The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.

Their own figures suggest the country has been running a very severe balance of payments deficit.

'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.

He's running as well as I've seen him run in recent years. His balance is phenomenal.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.