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Pope Francis Debuts on TikTok to Hawk New Autobiography
 [Breitbart] Pope Francis made his debut on TikTok Sunday to promote his new autobiography, written with Italian journalist Carlo Musso for Mondadori.“I would like to thank Mr. Carlo Musso who had the patience to help me remember so many things about my life,” the pontiff said on the controversial Chinese social media platform in regard to his book titled Hope: The Autobiography. “It is an autobiography, but for me autobiographies are to thank God for what he has done with my life,” he said from the study of his Santa Marta residence in the Vatican. “Ultimately, the real protagonist is the Lord who took me by the hand and led me forward.” On Sunday evening the pope appeared on Italy’s number-one television talk show Che Tempo Che Fa (“What Weather We’re Having”), during which he also spoke of his autobiography with host Fabio Fazio. The book “gives a sense of what I am like,” Francis said. The pope has suffered criticism from conservatives for doubling down in the autobiography on his decision to ban the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) in Catholic parishes, specifically lamenting its appeal to the “younger generations.” The “rigidity” of those who prefer the Traditional Latin Mass “is often accompanied by elegant and costly tailoring, lace, fancy trimmings, rochets. Not a taste for tradition but clerical ostentation, which is none other than an ecclesiastical version of individualism” the pope declares. “These ways of dressing up sometimes conceal mental imbalance, emotional deviation, behavioral difficulties,” he continues. “Not a return to the sacred but to quite the opposite, to sectarian worldliness,” he adds. As one review noted, the pope comes close to “conflating a love of the Old Mass with psychosexual disorder” and to “equating liturgical conservatism with effeminacy.” Related: Pope Francis 01/18/2025 Biden Removes Cuba From Terrorism List Pope Francis 01/09/2025 New DC Catholic Cardinal's View on Illegals at Odds With Trump''s Pope Francis 01/03/2025 With the West excusing terrorism, who needs Islamists? Related: TikTok 01/19/2025 Heartbroken TikTokers freak out as ban shuts down app for 170M users in US: ‘THIS IS A CRIME' TikTok 01/19/2025 Scotland Yard ''arrests'' PTI supporter over TikTok threats to PM Shehbaz, Sharif family TikTok 01/14/2025 University Of Michigan Ends Partnership With Communist Chinese University Posted by: Skidmark 2025-01-21 |
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