A prominent cardinal has raised sharp concerns over the Vatican’s staging of a drone display above St Peter’s Basilica that included the projection of the face of Pope Francis onto the night sky during the “Grace for the World” concert earlier this month.
Speaking to journalist Diane Montagna in Rome, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said the spectacle risked evoking the apotheosis of emperors in pagan Rome or the personality cults of the 20th century.
