to mingle with the crocodile secretions of the cynical.
Unlike France, no part of the smug Anglosphere has a popular or honest and clearsighted 'left-wing' newspaper like the bold and doughty Libération in France, which yesterday published a sober assessment* of the late Pope, which I paraphrase:
« With his ambiguous messages and political contradictions, especially concerning the role of women in the church, the acceptance of non-heterosexuals, and institutional sex-abuse, Pope Francis was neither humanist nor 'progressive'.
« His reign was a neat sliding of a fundamentally reactionary Catholic church behind a slick multi-cultural neoliberal image. »
Britain's Guardian was unsurprisingly reverent. The Americanised and pseudo-multicultural BBC devoted several slobbering hours to covering the funeral, mostly praising him as much as it, in the past, eulogised Nelson Mandela...and Princess Diana...
I remember the funeral of Juan Perón.
*Avec sa communication ambivalente et ses contradictions politiques, François, pape, ni très social ni très humaniste, a été un symptôme du glissement du néolibéralisme multiculturel au fondamentalisme national catholique.
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