Pope follows our Lorde

Tuesday, February 4th, 2014

Pope Francis is following New Zealand’s double Grammy award winning Lorde, and appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone.

Mark Binelli, author of the 7,700 word cover story, highlighted Pope Francis’ universal appeal, which, he says is cutting across all major demographics, age, gender, political views and even religious affiliation.

Entiled, “Pope Francis: The times they are a-changing” reportedly goes inside what Binelli calls the pope’s ‘gentle revolution’ and investigates why he is so different from those before him.

The Vatican has strongly criticised the Rolling Stone article in which Binelli called Benedict’s papacy “disasterous” and labelled Benedict’s apostolic exhortation “Sacramentum Caritatis” as “wonky”, which in America reportedly means “bookish”.

Acknowledging the diverse interest in Pope Francis, Vatican communications director, Fr Federico Lombardi denounced the article’s negative portrayal of Emeritis Pope Benedict’s pontificate.

“Unfortunately, the article disqualifies itself, falling into the usual mistake of a superficial journalism, which in order to highlight the positive aspects of Pope Francis, thinks it should describe in a negative way the pontificate of Pope Benedict, and does so with a surprising crudeness,” Fr Lombardi said in a statement.

Pope Francis’ popularity has also seen him appear on the front of Time, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and perhaps most unexpectedly on the cover of “The Advocate” and LGBT focussed magazine, who also named him as their person for the year for his landmark statement “If someone is gay and seeks the Lord with good will, who am I to judge”.

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