Gotta hand it to Leo’s success as Vicar of a Comic Book church. Wasn’t it enough to preside over Woodstock 2 this summer, or ongoing “Jubilees” and theme-park Masses honoring Pachamama weathermen, Queers, Migrants, etc. ? No. I think the watershed moment came with the formal blessing of the Castel Gandolfo Crystal in front of a proxy cast from Disney’s “Frozen” franchise. It’s not hard to imagine Leo cosplaying with the powers of the mysterious Snow Queen or assuming the role of Kristoff, animated iceman hero whose real life counterpart famously appeared in “Frozen Fever” (2015), “Olaf’s Frozen Adventure” (2017) and “Once Upon a Snowman” (2020). It’s not funny. It’s frightening.
Wonder if Robert Prevost is mimicking or mocking Robert Frost’s classic doomsday poem:
“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
Gotta hand it to Leo’s success as Vicar of a Comic Book church. Wasn’t it enough to preside over Woodstock 2 this summer, or ongoing “Jubilees” and theme-park Masses honoring Pachamama weathermen, Queers, Migrants, etc. ? No. I think the watershed moment came with the formal blessing of the Castel Gandolfo Crystal in front of a proxy cast from Disney’s “Frozen” franchise. It’s not hard to imagine Leo cosplaying with the powers of the mysterious Snow Queen or assuming the role of Kristoff, animated iceman hero whose real life counterpart famously appeared in “Frozen Fever” (2015), “Olaf’s Frozen Adventure” (2017) and “Once Upon a Snowman” (2020). It’s not funny. It’s frightening.
Wonder if Robert Prevost is mimicking or mocking Robert Frost’s classic doomsday poem:
“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”