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Pope John Paul II greets the World Youth Day crowd in Czestochowa, Poland, in 1992. An estimated 1.5 million people from 80 countries attended the third international World Youth Day.
Modern popes have become, in effect, the Evangelist-in-Chief of the Catholic Church, using the media of their day, just as Paul did in his, to spread their message. Indeed, in a recent interview with the Ukrainian news outlet Glavcom, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv, leader of the Greek Catholic Church, said something out loud that many observers have long mumbled sotto voce – to wit, the Vatican’s communication system is bad and getting worse, not better.
“The biggest problem I see today in the machinery of the Vatican is communications, communication with the world, especially through the media. In reality, today the Pope doesn’t have a spokesperson who can act as constant communicator with journalists when we don’t understand the Pope or his statements aren’t entirely clear. Naturally, everyone wants to understand exactly what the Pope said and what he meant by it.
It’s not that all was sweetness and light in the Navarro years – it was often hard to know, for instance, where John Paul’s thinking ended and Navarro’s spin began. Moreover, the dynamic duo of John Paul and Navarro often obscured the fact that the Vatican’s communications system, as opposed to the personalities at the top of the pyramid, remained seriously dysfunctional.
In part, this is a question of personal style. Francis is legendarily allergic to being “handled,” and thus resistant to creating the impression that anyone else is truly able to speak definitively in his name.
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