The Pope will grace the cover of the new issue of Italian Rolling Stone
ROME, 8 Mar — RIA Novosti, Alexander Logunov. Pope Francis appears on the cover of the March issue of the Italian version of Rolling Stone magazine.
Photo of the Pontiff with a raised thumb with the caption “pop Daddy” will decorate the first page dedicated to music and popular culture magazine in anticipation of his trip to Milan, which will take place March 25.
During the visit Pope Francis, among other things, will visit the areas on the outskirts of the city, where he will meet with them living in poor, immigrants and their descendants. March 25, according to the publication, will be “historic for him a day.”
“Rolling Stone celebrates Pope Francis, who has captivated the youth with their attention to the poor and unfortunate, his close people in the manner of how he behaves in public. This Pope seems most appropriate for our time,” writes the magazine. In the Pontiff the article, so “those sensible things, which he says allow us to clearly feel his solitude.”
In 2014 the American version of Rolling Stone has released a feature on Pope Francis. Thus, he became the first Pontiff appeared on the cover of the famous music publishing.
Then the Vatican has subjected to criticism the publication RS. The head of the print service of the Holy see Federico Lombardi described it as evidence of great attention to the innovations of Pope Francis all over the world. However, the official representative of the Vatican noted that the positive assessment of the activities of Pope Francis should not force journalists to write bad about his predecessor on the Apostolic throne of Benedict XVI.