The faithful Catholics worldwide expressed outrage this week after videos and images of people who take selfies next to the open coffin of Pope Francis on social networks.
Since Wednesday, on 128,000 people have visited the Basilica of San Pedro in the Vatican, supporting that it is about eight hours to enter the Church and respect the body of Pope Francis. The late Pontiff will be in the state for three days ritual Before his burial on Saturday.
Videos that circulate or individuals who record videos of selfies and take photos next to the duration of the Pope’s coffin the few seconds that allowed them to be in front of the coffin began to circulate in social networks, causing indignation and condemn distinct distasst distaste distaste a solemn moment.
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“At the time you live with so many people, they lose great intimacy. The lines, the speed, blur the experience,” a Spanish man identified by the Spanish news agency Efe Efe Efe saying. “Many come more to have their photos of the photos to pray for the Pope.”
Martin and Catherine Gilsenan, a 59 -year -old British husband and wife, gap With the Daily Mirror on Thursday and said they found the very distzos mobile phones, explaining that people were what it was to save their selfie sticks when they arrived at the front.
“There were also many people looking around and got angry with those of the phones. We have phones, but we kept them in our pockets and then we found a place inside the church for 15 minutes of quiet contemplation,” said Martin Gilsenan.
“What surprised me is the fact that they did not tell us photos in the Sistine Chapel and here people were taking their phone and doing selfies with the coffin,” Janine Venables, a British woman from southern Wales, said he Daily mail. “I thought it was a little bad taste and I am surprised that nobody stopped them.”
The Daily Mail reported On Friday, an unidentified Brazilian priest is among the people who published selfies with Pope Francis’s body on social networks. A Vatican source told the Mail It would be good if people could try to remember where they are and have respect, but “there is little more that can be done.”
A Vatican spokesman said The British newspaper The times The visitors were discouraged to take photos, while a Vatican source told the newspaper: “They are queuing for hours, praying and lending their respect, but the bar is not in the best taste.”
Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, died Monday from a stroke at the age of 88. Francis served as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 1998 to his election as Pope in March 2013. The Argentine newspaper The born Communicated with the archbishop of Buenos Aires to comment on the subject of selfies, which reportedly He replied that the office does not have an official position on the matter, since it is mourning and carries out the relevant tasks for a Mass to be held on Saturday morning for the Eternal Rest of the Pope.
Pope Francis’s coffd will be sealed Friday night after the sealing rite. The late Pope will be buried on the morning of Saturday, April 26, in the papal basilica of Santa María Major, which is located on the walls of the Vatican in the center of Rome, according to his willpower.
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