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| 2013-03-15 |
| NO TO A “SUPERPOWER POPE.” Mercifully, the new pope is not the archbishop of The Big Apple, Cardinal T. Dolan. Shortly after Cardinal J. Mario Bergoglio was elected as the 266th pope, Cardinal Dolan demonstrated why my prayers had been answered. The American had been bypassed. Out of the papal conclave and into the limelight charged the vainglorious Dolan (who, it has to be said, harbored hopes of becoming pope). He then suctioned himself to the television cameras, American style. No other cardinal elector granted interviews on emerging from the Sistine Chapel; they were enjoined to secrecy. Not the American cardinals. According to the Associated Press, these prolix self-promoters held daily press briefings near the Vatican to a room packed with reporters and television crews. This was vulgarity, not transparency. Not for nothing was the vow of silence once considered a test of character and spirituality in Christianity and in other faiths. This universal value has been inverted by American pop culture and pop religion. In the U.S., a deeply private person is considered defective; a blabbermouth who does and says anything on camera is canonized. Dolan, by CBS’ telling, “broadcasts a weekly radio show” and “was hardly silent during the cardinals’ self-imposed hush order.” For his vulgar electioneering, the archbishop of The Big Apple was dubbed by Kean University historian Christopher Bellitto “The Ed Koch of Catholicism.” Having gigged with liberal comedian Stephen Colbert, Dolan’s showman credentials are “better” than Koch’s. American public life is such that even our pick for pope (Dolan) struts his stuff like a “Jousey Shore” reality star. The two-day-long conclave gave us a glimpse of the sublime. The elevated atmosphere was sustained by the crowds in St. Peter’s Square. Dolan shattered the majesty and solemnity of that event at a press conference where he alone was in attendance. There, Dolan disgorged the obligatory niceties about Pope Francis I. Cardinal Bergoglio was an “inspired choice.” May he persevere for years to come (“Ad Multos Annos”). |
| Posted by:Glomose Unease1902 |
| #2 So Champ like. Actually the first person I thought of was Chuckie Schumer. El Rushbo once said that the most dangerous neighborhood in DC is any space between Chuckie and a TV camera. |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2013-03-15 10:02 |
| #1 He then suctioned himself to the television cameras Agree with Mercer or not, my personal favorite phrase of the entire article. So Champ like. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-03-15 09:26 |