Failing to have been able to win in the photo between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, Emmanuel Macron still hopes to leave his trace in Saint-Pierre de Rome. How ? By playing influencers at the next conclave in order to place “Son” Pope, Cardinal Marseillais Jean-Marc Aveline.
It is an understatement to say that the right -wing Italian press does not like the character Macron, which she considers a hassle, contemptuous, trying to interfere everywhere in the service of her own glory. Our transalpine neighbors have not forgotten how, rude character, he had “forgotten” to congratulate Giorgia Meloni when he came to power, thus accrediting the words of the French press which, as a whole, called it as “post-fascist extreme right”. Officially, the relations between the two heads of state have since warmed up and Giorgia Meloni weighs, today, more in the European concert than our president. Proof of this is, it is she, not him, who went to Washington at the invitation of Donald Trump to negotiate customs duties on behalf of the 27.
“Regain weight on the international scene”
Funerals are in principle the occasion for reunion and gatherings. Those of Pope Francis made no exception and President Macron took the opportunity to do what he likes above all: trying to place himself on the spotlight. The recurring thing has become so clairous that the foreign press is not mistaken. This is the occasion for a few cowhlight titles on the other side of the Alpine border: “Macron even wants to choose the pope”écrit The truthwhen everyday life Libero succession: “He also imposes himself on the conclave”. And Time more friendly title “Conclave, Macron lunch with French cardinals: at the hunt for voices for avel”it is to write immediately: “Macron’s greatness does not know any limits between the sacred and the profane”.
Scathing, Time continues: “Ready to do anything to go back in the polls that see him in free fall in terms of popularity, the tenant of the Élysée would have even thought of playing a role during the next Conclave”, This is why he had scheduled a lunch at Villa Bonaparte-the French Embassy near the Holy See-in order to “Ask for information on how to build a consensus around the figure of Jean-Marc Aveline”.
For the conservative Italian press, it is not the concern of France and Christians who would stir Emmanuel Macron. It’s just the fact, written Liberothat “If he managed to raise his favorite cardinal to the pontifical throne, the French head of state would instantly regain international weight and soothe tensions with the Holy See”. However, Pope Francis himself put his anointing on the Cardinal Marseillais, described as“” Bishop of the Mediterranean “, very attentive to the rights of migrants and to dialogue with Islam”succession Time. It is because he “Must have been aware of the rise of this candidacy [qu’Emmanuel Macron] tried to make a place for yourself by organizing lunch ” to which he had invited his favorite candidate as well as Cardinal Barbarin (Archbishop Emeritus of Lyon), Christophe Pierre (Apostolic Nonce in the United States) and the bishop of Ajaccio François-Xavier Bustillo.
I did it!
Without doubt Emmanuel Macron wishes to spare the influence of a conservative pope and would he pride himself on having a French pope. Which has not happened for 647 years. Pulling the tiara to him, he would undoubtedly try to attribute the ascent, he who sees in Marseille the prefiguration of the France of tomorrow. Very supported by reformists appointed number by Pope Francis, “The French cardinal can countunderlines Il tempo, on an exceptional “large voter” in the person of the Luxembourg Jesuit Jean-Claude Hollerich “. Indeed, “The latter, ultra-European and anti-sovereignist, is one of the most liberal members of the Sacred College and would like to implement a progressive program for the Church”.
However, warns the daily life, Cardinal Aveline does not speak Italian, which is a handicap; But the worst, for him, is “Macron’s interventionism as a new Sun King”. And since reference is made to the history of France, Libero refers to the 2024 Olympic Games ceremony when, “Opplicating a few billion faithful and the tradition on the other side of the Alps, [Emmanuel Macron] had favored the revolting staging of the Supper in Drag-Queen version, seasoned with the celebration of the royal decapitations practiced during the French Revolution ”. What we understood, on the side of the Vatican, as a very clear will to “Get away from Rome and Catholicism”. Where does the big maneuvers?
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