La Pape au bout du fil!

Je crois que je vais garder mon iPhone ouvert, juste au cas... Le Pape François appelle directement des fidèles qui ont besoin de soutien. Tout le monde n'apprécie pas au Vatican. Je n'avais pas eu connaissance de cette histoire avant de tomber sur l'article du NY Times. Plus qu'une anecdote, un symbole d'un rapprochement entre l'Église et les fidèles? Je m'intéresse toujours à l'évolution d'une institution, l'Église, qui a tellement marqué l'histoire occidentale.

 "While the papal phoning has been widely greeted with delight, it is also proving somewhat perilous, with unsubstantiated news reports of calls supposedly made by Francis — including one last week to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, and another to a young distraught French gay man. The Vatican denied that the pope had made those calls. Some Vatican officials are expressing concern that individuals are impersonating Francis to advance political or ideological agendas.

 Other Vatican analysts fear that the advent of papal phone calls could spawn disillusion among those not receiving a call.

 “There’s an innumerable number of people who have suffered violence or injustice who might write to the pope for a word of comfort, and it’s clear that he can’t answer all of them,” said Alberto Melloni, a Vatican historian and the director of the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies in Bologna, a liberal Catholic research institute. “They could think, ‘See, I’m feeling awful and the pope didn’t even call.’ ”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/world/europe/the-popes-on-the-line-and-everyones-talking.html?hp&_r=0