The Media's Conclave

 

The Media and the Conclave.

The media of all colours are interested in this Conclave like no other before. All the Main Stream Media outlets have been spewing out pages and pages of information and comment, this is great exposure for the Church, especially after the record numbers converting to the Catholic Church, well since the end of Vatican Two anyway. However, it is clear that they don’t want an orthodox Cardinal to become pope and will probably give him more negative press than they gave Benedict when he was elected. Do you remember the ‘Panzer Pope’ epithet, often used by the secular press after Benedict’s election as Pope? That was in 2005. Any conservative Pope that emerges on the loggia, probably later this week, will have to brace himself for a continual onslaught of thinly veiled abuse, sarcasm, even foul language in some areas of the media and entertainment industry, especially on You Tube.

I saw the Conclave film recently as it is a huge secular comment on the election of a pope, and it was bad. I was expecting at least a well acted film with a strong plot and cinematography, alas even these elements did not stand up. This film’s main job was to push the ‘message,’ as some You Tube commentators call it. From the outset it was clear that this film would be crafted in a certain secular way, it’s not a religious film there is very little faith on display and Wikipedia describes it as a political thriller. Its attempts to manipulate the narrative was transparent to anyone who has seen it all before, but perhaps this film could not be forgiven for descending into pure pantomime with the frontrunner for the Traditionalist/conservative wing, Cardinal Tedesco, being depicted as a nasty bombastic racist. In the end after suffering a lot of nasty intrigue, (and a terrorist explosion) the Cardinals picked the only ‘nice’ guy there, who took Innocent as his papal name, and turned out to me a genetic woman!

Pray for the next Pope that he will be a faithful servant of the Church and Jesus Christ, and not be more interest in looking good to the secular media.

By Prayer Crusader St Philomena