TV review With the talk shows, the Pope-Duiding remained a ‘patriarchal circus’

It was a wonderful Easter. The Lord had truly risen and his place trial on earth laid the head to rest forever. It would have been interesting if a refugee, a homeless person, or a female pastoral worker at the talk show tables were pushed to talk about the death of Pope Francis. Those were the people for whom this leader of the Roman Catholic Church was committed. Instead, it remained a « patriarchal circus » (Jeroen Pauw) of Catholic men with glasses.

Except in Eva (NPO1). He also had all-way Coks Donders and BBB-Politics Mona Keijzer. The Catholic Deputy Prime Minister told her meeting with the Pope, the day before he went heavens. Presenter Eva Jinek asked her about the papal handling of asylum seekers. Francis had repeatedly argued for a merciful treatment of refugees, while the Mona Keijzer cabinet is advocating the most merciless reception. While the pope visited Lampedusa to reach out boat refugees, Keijzer went on a working visit in Bakkum to sing the praise of a notorious bad ‘austere flow location’ for asylum seekers.

A nice contradiction that Eva Jinek of course did not ask for. So Keijzer was able to tension the dead pope for her cart with impunity. She complained about the « stream of refugees » that she linked smoothly and lying to the living crisis. Was that in the spirit of Francis? « How can you sleep, Mrs. Keijzer? » Should have asked her. I understand, such a man cannot be too picky with his visitors. Just before he left, he met the American vice president Vance. You can’t get much closer to the antichrist.

Jeroen Pauw posed in Bar late (NPO2) As the silly unbeliever, which was punished with a minute -long academic argument of the theologian on duty in which they used the conceptual pair of ‘time and space’ nine times. The theologian of Eva emphasized that Franciscus found a company in crisis twelve years ago due to child abuse in the church. The pope had « fertilized the stable » and « put the church on the market again as a soft drink that nobody wanted to drink anymore. »

News hour Had an eloquent theologian with an impressive beard, which made me wonder why the pope never has a beard. God, Jesus and almost all male saints have a beard. There is even a female saint with a beard. Sint Wensfortis left her beard to prevent a marriage to a Moorish king. (Okay, I was googling again.) But the Pope has had a smooth shaved chin for more than three hundred years. A pity, because a long beard is so wise and spiritual. Perhaps a point of attention at the coming conclave.

Dictatorial and eager

I have to say, the meaning of Francis’s twelve -year -old pontificate was excellent on television. For his lesser sides, attention was mainly in it In Memoriam Pope Francis (NPO2). It was also emphasized that he was dictatorial and eager to use his subordinates and fired with immediate effect. If he had worked in Hilversum, we would have called the cross -border behavior. We must not forget that the church has a « authoritarian regime, » said Guido Klabbers of the Klokk, the organization for victims of ecclesiastical child abuse.

Klabbers gave the pope a positive assessment about the approach to that abuse. In the Eight -hour journal (NPO1) a gay priest was also positive about the pope, who had said about Catholic homosexuals: « Who am I to judge them. » Two victims of the old regime gave this pope the blessing, and that’s what it’s all about.

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