Pope Francis and the selfies with the body: the images become viral and trigger indignation

Code for the last farewell to Pope Francis all night, outside of San Pietro. The line of faithful who are reaching Rome in these hours, before it comes The coffin is closed (tonight at 8 pm, while tomorrow 26 April there will be funeral in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore), It doesn’t seem to run out. Normal for a pope who has been so close to people. But in the midst of all these tributes, a large controversy is spreading on the web for the gesture of some people who once the coffin inside San Pietro have taken selfies with the body of Pope Francis, a gesture considered inappropriate and certainly of doubtful taste.

Selfies with the body of Pope Francis

The gesture of some faithful was taken up by other people in the queue who then published the video that started bouncing on the net, arousing a lot of indignation. “A very serious lack of respect», We read among the various comments on X. Second Alessandro RicciCouncilor Order Psychologists Lazio and Professor Institute Pontifical Pontifical Pontifical University, interviewed by Messengertoday “everything is quickly consumed at the expense of the time of reflection, of the slowness that serves to weigh things to go deep on one’s emotional experiences and the ability to develop them”, he explains. “We are increasingly quick but superficialyou can easily go from a gesture of recollection and compared to something more touristy or, even worse, narcissistic ».

The psychologist also recalled that several times Pope Francis he warned against the cult of appearance and the society of the image and “therefore I think it is important to be consistent with his message e knowing how to decentralize from your own ego To know how to find humans and real and not virtual to hunt for a like ».

Prohibiting the gesture would not make sense, according to the professor, but an education to use social media would be more useful and necessary, for find the “concept of intimacy” Since today the most of themselves, more consensus are obtained – thanks also to the algorithms that support this attitude – “with ever greater difficulties in getting in touch with our emotions especially those that frighten us such as sadness, pain and suffering”.

For many the selfie with the body of Pope Francis It represents a very serious lack of respect and is the manifestation of a society in which the cult of its image can also overcome the boundaries of the sacred and mourning.