Posted on 09/20/2018 5:12:49 PM PDT by marshmallow
Some Vatican staff shared the public's dismay at the image - but by then it was too late
A pair of photographs released by the Vatican – one in particular – caused quite a stir on Thursday. The offending image showed members of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Executive Committee sharing a jocular moment during a meeting with Pope Francis. That in itself is nothing too terribly newsworthy. But the meeting was to discuss the ongoing crisis in the US Church, precipitated by the spectacular fall from grace of one of the hierarchy’s best-known and most influential members: the disgraced former Archbishop of Washington, DC, Theodore Edgar “Uncle Ted” McCarrick. Given that context, people asked how such an image could have been chosen to convey the spirit of the bishops’ response to the crisis.
Officials at the Press Office had not responded to queries from the Catholic Herald as of press time, and responsible figures in the Dicastery for Communication declined to comment on the incident. However, there does appear to have been discussion of the images within the Vatican communications apparatus and an attempt to keep them from being used.
Some Vatican staff only saw the photo once it had been released, and were dismayed. “[We] knew it would horrify people and embarrass the Holy Father and the US bishops,” said one source, who spoke with the Catholic Herald on condition of anonymity. “It’s our job to help get out the message of the Holy Father, and that photograph compromised the message the Holy Father is trying to convey.” By then, however, it was too late.
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Is the issue the statue of the boy with the man hugging?
To most or all of those in the room, the more sordid the better.
To the faithful no explanation is necessary.
I don’t think so - it’s more about the 7 elders of the Church have a good laugh while they discuss the issue of Cdl McCarrick … something isn’t quite right with the image …
I don’t think so - it’s more about the 8 elders of the Church have a good laugh while they discuss the issue of Cdl McCarrick … something isn’t quite right with the image …
7 pedo’s discussing a pedo with a photo trophy statue on the desk. Yep that’s bad PR.
Was the punch line to the joke that brought on the laughter something along the lines of
“Then I told him, ‘squeal like a pig’” ?
Dude there’s some pretty serious sick going on with these people. You don’t have to try to make it worse, it’s bad enough.
someone in the press office is fighting back quietly.
And of course, the photographer heard what they were talking about and took a photo to show they weren’t serious.
“...embarrass the Holy Father...”
That is not possible, whatever else one may say about Francis, he is IMMUNE to embarrassment.
I remember seeing a pic of Michele Obama on the WH website, with that unhappy wife puss she so often had. I remember thinking, this is worse than any pix of her posted on FR!
A thousand words, folks, a thousand words. And if you are doing media for the Vatican I would assume you’d learned this lessen by 1950.
What does this photo convey? That to them it’s a big joke. Which it is, but the joke is on them.
I give you a FB “like”!
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