Well, at least we are well forewarned about the French media.
Unfortunately, the comparison with John Paul II has become some sort of entrenched cottage industry and vested interest among a certain tribe of journalists who do not seem to be able to learn from anything - not from hard facts and objective reality, not from recent experience even.
During the trip, many will surely change their tune because they can't possibly report something contrary to what is evident on TV - only to happily go back to their looms of delusion and devilish falsehood shortly afterwards.
And I wouldn't be too quick to ascribe the juvenile spite of Ms. Adeline Fleury and her ilk to all the French people. After all, there's a fairly flourishing market for Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's books even in France.
You would think the French journalists, who think of themselves as intellectuals, would give some weight to the fact that Joseph Ratzinger was elected by the Academie Francaise to take the seat of the late Andrei Sakharov, but probably those who write so dismissively of Benedict XVI are not even aware of it, such is their ignorance!
But time and again, Benedictus - like Amore - vincit omnia!
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 25/08/2008 19:18]