MondayVatican – Vatican » Pope Francis and the untold stories

There being a media papacy and an actual papacy applies to any pontificate. The media does not know the profound reasons for a pope’s decisions or why he chooses some collaborators over others. They simply observe and then report what they observe. Sometimes, it is accurate; other times they can be misled in their observations by ideological considerations or personal sympathy. In any case, however, it is always worth considering all points of view, even the most critical ones.
The pontificate of Pope Francis is not exempt from this problem. There is a media pontificate and a real pontificate. And the pontificate of the media has different faces: the faces of those who look at the Pope with suspicion and the faces of those who accept and slavishly support every decision he takes. Perhaps the difference in this pontificate is that there is no middle ground. If you criticize the Pope, you are automatically against the Papacy and the Pope himself. It is a climate not different from …