Say goodbye to those appearances from the balcony of The Basilica of St. Peter's. Ratzy's getting a twitter account. Biting into the apple, just like Adam.
Back in, say, 1961? The joke around the parochial school playground was "What number do you call to heaven? Et cum spirit 220!"
I will admit to having grown up in a Catholic church in the Ecuemenical Council days, when there was a sense the church had to align itself with the modern world in some ways. It led to guitar masses, "Mr.Blue", religious cards with organic Modernist abstraction designs. Films scored with Erik Satie's 3 Gymnopédies. Simon and Garfunkle were totally acceptable and the nuns were delighted with The Byrd's "Turn, Turn. Turn" Based on a Biblical passage!
That whole phenomena peaked out in "Jesus Christ Superstar", many years later.
The Catholic Church regressed to less Jesus, and more an angry Pantocrator. The God-the-Father who would whoop your ass. John Paul George Ringo II, remained true to regressive ideas about sex and women (all Christian conservatives adored him for this), but at least he threw in some criticism about capitalism (wherein he was roundly ignored by Christian conservatives.)
Now I am not one to begrudge anyone living in Italy for having an appreciation for modern design, modernity. The 4th item in Marinetti's Futurist manifesto is:
"We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath ... a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace. "
Ratzy is a fashionista. He wears red patent leather shoes.He is remaking the Pope wardrobe.
And now he has a twitter account.