Sunday 2 February 2014

Is it a bird? Is it a plane?......no, it's SuperPope!

 
The Italian street artist, Maupal, has painted a graffiti image of Pope Francis as Superman (or Superfran) as the tabloids have dubbed it, on the wall of a building in Rome close to the Vatican.

Flying through the air, right arm pointed to the heavens and clutching a black bag labelled 'Values' this piece of graffiti follows closely on the heels of the Holy Father appearing on the front cover of Rolling Stones magazine, a rather dubious privilege in my book.

And now, the Vatican has tweeted this image of the Holy Father. Poor man.

What has he done to deserve such 'Popestar' treatment? (Don't answer that).

A friend who was in Rome recently and attended Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St Peter's, reports that all was in Latin and most reverent and prayerful.

But, there is little doubt that the liberal wing of HMC believe that the Pope is their man.

We shall see.
     

4 comments:

  1. »A friend who was in Rome recently and attended Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St Peter's, reports that all was in Latin and most reverent and prayerful.«
    I can confirm this. There are two types of our pope. The one, which is interacting with the people before the general audience begins and the other one, which celebrates a holy mass just in that way it should be celebrated.

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  2. The Pope's celebration of the Mass would be much better if he would genuflect before the Blessed Sacrament.

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  3. 'there are two types of our pope?' but which one is the pope?

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  4. Of course both of them!
    Just like Benedikt XVI he makes a difference between a meeting with the people, before the audience begins or celebrating the holy mass. But depending on the character of latin american people, this difference is much more visible than it was with Pope Benedikt XVI.
    No one is better or worse. Francis is now our Pope and the people of the faithful should stand by him.

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