Since the death of Pope Francis, on April 21, the Italian press has been taken from a fever that does not have its equivalent elsewhere in the world. In Italy, the relationship with the papacy is intimate, although it is the fruit of a conflictual history, the unification of the country having triumphed by tearing from the sovereigns pontiffs their last territories and their capital in 1871. Of the 266 popes of the Universal Church, 213 were Italian. The transition period leading to the conclave, which is to start on Wednesday May 7, has a consistent effect on the opinion of the peninsula while Italian political news, Usually rich in twists and polemics, vegetates in a standstill.
He does not spend a day without The main daily newspapers do not report in special pages for the smallest details of the current process, multiplying the angles and speculating On the chances of this or that Italian cardinal to become a pope. Without doing the campaign openly, many of them enhance the figures national ecclesiastics. The MessageroLarge Roman daily newspaper, devoted, Monday April 28, an enthusiastic portrait At Cardinal Fernando Filoni, 79, in which it is specified that the former apostolic nuncio (or ambassador of the Pope) in Iraq, at the twilight of the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, “Was able to sail in global challenges with courage and transparency”. In The Pressthe Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, was put in majesty two days later, described as “The great craftsman of Vatican diplomacy”, praised for having concluded the agreement of the Holy See with Beijing.
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