Nothing is sacred anymore to the smartphone holder. A surge in controversy is ongoing in the last day for the faithful to visit Pope Francis’ body before the casket is closed and sealed for tomorrow’s state funeral in the Vatican. What’s driving the outrage in the press and online is the fact that the faithful – who stood in line for hours on end to have a last look on the Pontiff – are choosing to memorialize the moment with the questionable contemporary habit of ‘taking a selfie’ with the dead body of Francis in his casket. The Telegraph: ‘Smartphones are destroying our sense of common decency’; CNN: ‘Vatican asks visitors not to take selfies with late pope’; Daily Mail: ‘Fury at ‘disrespectful’ mourners taking…
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