06-01-2023, 12:04 PM
(06-01-2023, 11:57 AM)XIII Wrote: I suspect the reason it didn't get full coverage is because Pope Benedict wasn't a sitting pope, simple as that. Nothing disgusting about it.I think this is exactly the reason. The 'emeritus' title changed the conversation, editorially. If a 'sitting' Pope had died, it would have been much more of a news story rather than 'former Pope and old man dies of natural causes'. Still, Aleem and the Religion team did a fairly comprehensive job of covering the funeral and context around the emeritus status.