UMMMM!!!!
Everyday I thank God, among other things, that Papa is the first Pope of the Internet age. The rise of the
Internet coincided with JP-II's difficult last years so pictorial coverage of him was necessarily limited
until his unprecedented wake and funeral. But our Papa on the Internet! - what would we do without the web,
indeed, even if we take it for granted now.
And so we have access to pictures that otherwise we would never else get to see because the newspapers and
magazines can only publish so much, and what they do publish often tends to be banal! Not like these
two photos, for instance...
Where else but on the Internet or in a book of photographs, perhaps - and only with Ratzi - might one see
images like these of a Pope wearing his candor so lovably, even under the Papal miter and ceremonial robes!
Ratzi is being Ratzi even as Pope, spontaneously showing what he feels at the moment, as we have seen in
dozens of candid photos taken when he was prefect at CDF, a sampling of which Sylvie put together in this
recent montage -
WHAT A DELIGHT! EVEN WHEN HE SEEMS MOST CONTRARY,YOU WANT TO SMOTHER HIM WITH 'SMAKKOTTI' AS THE CONSORELLE
WOULD SAY! Whenever I look at this montage, the laughter just bubbles out of me, and waves of love and tenerezza....
This image, selected by Ratzigirl from the last general audience, belongs to this post!
What could have provoked this amusement?
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 12/05/2006 10.58]