hmmmmm, I wonder if they finally responded because of someone's somewhat scathing "request".

(Get what you ask for around here!)
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Vaticano Update | Olympic Games: Vatican message and controversy & Pope restarts General Audience

https://youtu.be/0tW7R6lsS0I

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Vatican denounces Paris Olympics ‘Last Supper’ parody, eight days after ceremony

Eight days after the opening of the Paris Olympic Games, the Vatican surprised many by issuing a statement late this Saturday evening, Aug. 3, expressing its “sadness” at some of the scenes of the opening ceremony that caused “offense to numerous Christians and to believers of other religions.”

In a brief statement, issued in French at around 8:00 p.m. Rome time, the Vatican said, “it cannot but join its voice with the others that have been raised in these last days to deplore the offense made to numerous Christians and believers of other religions.”

It said, “In a prestigious event [like the Olympics] where the entire world unites around common values, there must not be allusions ridiculing the religious beliefs of many people.”

The Vatican statement concluded by affirming that “The freedom of expression which, obviously, is not to be questioned, finds its limit in respecting others.”

America has learned that the Vatican had originally decided not to issue a statement because the French bishops had issued a statement soon after the event in which they denounced the offense to believers in a scene involving a drag queen and some 15 others. They and other critics saw the performance as a parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous late 15th-century painting of the Last Supper.

The scene was also criticized by some on the political right in France, Hungary (Prime Minister Viktor Orbán) and the United States, including Donald Trump.

Several bishops in the United States, including Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester and Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, also issued statements or made comments denouncing what they saw as scenes that ridiculed Christianity.

As of Aug. 2, three cardinals and 24 bishops from around the world—the majority of whom are American—had signed an open letter to the International Olympic Committee calling for an apology for the display.

more here:

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/08/03/vatican-olympics-last-supper-drag-controversy-248501

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***Pope Francis I know you have a spark of goodness within you.

The Jesuits corrupted your thinking and you have some of the most conniving evil mouths whispering in your ear.

Please do what is right and turn the Catholic Church away from the sinfulness that permeates the Vatican. You are still the Pope and you have every authority to dispense of those who are against the beliefs of the Deposit of Faith and all Sacred Traditions in the Church.

God Bless you Pope Francis, many were looking to you to RIGHT this contentious WRONG!
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