The American bishop Thomas Paprocki has assured that Donald Trump “It must apologize” for “making fun of God, the Catholic Church and the Papacy” By publishing an image of yourself disguised as potatoes.
The religious of the state of Illinois has also denounced that the publication of the image – generated with artificial intelligence – “is deeply offensive for Catholics”, especially for the moment the religious community is going through after the death of Pope Francis and before the conclave, which will choose the new leader of the Vatican.
Shortly before the publication that the US president and the White House spread on social networks, Trump joked about who the new Pontiff of the Catholic Church would be. “I would like to be me. It would be my number one option,” He assured before indirectly referring to the New York archbishop, Timothy Dolan.
Asked about this issue, Dolan himself said that the publication of said image “was not good.” From the Vatican and three days after the conclave begins, The American cardinal, using an Italian expression, said Trump “was wrong.”
This Trump storage with the Catholic Church is right on the ninth day of grief that were made after the death of Pope Francis.
The Vatican closed on Sunday the nine days of mourning decreed by Pope Francis with a mass in honor of the “intense pastoral life ”of the Argentine Pontiff.
The novelty – as they are called – are part of the protocol after the death of the Pope.
Francisco died at age 88 on April 21 and the duel formally began on the 26th, the day of his funeral before some 400,000 people and senior dignitaries.
His successor will be elected in a conclave which starts on Wednesday in the Sistine Chapel.
Every day of the novelty a Mass was held in the Basilica of San Pedro with the presence of the Church cardinals.
The Sunday was officiated by the French cardinal Dominique Mamberti, who has the title of Protodiácono and will be the one who pronounces the famous and expected phrase in Latin “Habemus Papam” after the successor of the Pontiff is chosen.
In the homily, Mamberti celebrated the “ability to worship” the deceased Argentine Jesuit. “His intense pastoral life, his innumerable meetings, were based on the long moments of prayer that the Ignatian discipline had instilled in him,” said Prefect of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature.
“We will remain in memory and in our hearts their 126 stops in front of the ‘Salus Populi Romani’, an icon attributed to Saint Lucas that represents the Virgin with the Child Jesus in her arms.” And now that he rests near the beloved image, we trust him with gratitude and confidence to the intercession of the mother of the Lord and our mother, “said the cardinal.
Mamberti will vote in the conclave To choose the new Pope when he is 73 years old.
With information from Colprensa and AFP agency.
