'The New Pope', a series that has just debuted in Brazil, satirizes corruption in the Vatican and pedophile cardinals.
On air since April 17th in Brazil, on the Fox Premium channel, “The New Pope” continues to provoke the Catholic Church, by painting the Vatican the way the devil likes it.
In the list of “sins”, a narcissistic and tanned pope strolls along a Venetian beach wearing only a pair of white swim trunks, alongside women in bikinis who lust after him. At night, nuns in nightgowns still dance sensually under strobe lights in front of the monastery's giant, fluorescent crucifix, as if they were in a nightclub.
Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's extravagant satire plays with papal vanity and arrogance, corruption at the highest levels of the Vatican, homosexuality among priests, sexual harassment among nuns and even pedophile cardinals seeking forgiveness.
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“If it’s funny, why not? There are no taboos or limits to my imagination,” said the 49-year-old Neapolitan director, winner of the Oscar for best foreign film with “The Great Beauty” (2014), as he disdained Roman high society.
It doesn't bother Sorrentino that the Vatican condemns the burlesque portrayal of the Church in the series. The “Roman Observer”, the Vatican city newspaper, complained about the “frivolity in dealing with the dogmas of the Catholic faith” and the “caustic look at the Vatican curia”. The author of the text, Spanish theologian Juan Manuel de Prada, also identified “perfidy” in the director's approach.
With information Elaine Guerini / Neo Feed
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