The traditional solemnity of the role, although sometimes perceived in the two -year -old history of the Church as a means to maintain a certain distance between the often opulent and sometimes corrupt Catholic hierarchies and ordinary people, performs an essential function: to keep the sacredness and the depth of a message religious who, although addressed “to men”, must remain firm in the transcendent dimension and in the reference to the divine.

Usually abandoning themselves to worldly languages ​​and references, commenting gossip or irrelevant news, make jokes from sports bar and even invite the faithful to follow television broadcasts (regardless of their quality or by the message they convey) not only trivializes the sacred, but decrees one definitive debris of the figure of the Vicar of Christ.

If a Pope, to strengthen a concept, comes to recommend a television program, implicitly recognizes that his role has lost meaning, moral authority and ability to inspire.