Celebrity worship creates mirages. Media attention to the coronation of Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV is not all that it seems. The 24-7 news feed degrades the new pope into a celebrity before he has begun to govern.
When white smoke went up the Vatican chimney, emotional display rose to fever pitch in St. Peter’s Square. The spectacle of uninhibited emotionalism evoked the sentimental spree that Britain reveled in after Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997. Continue Reading
