(LifeSiteNews) — A drone-created image of the late Pope Francis appeared over St. Peter’s Basilica during the Vatican’s “Grace for the World” concert Saturday.
The late pontiff’s image appeared over St. Peter’s Basilica during the concert as Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli and American rapper Jelly Roll sang the Protestant hymn “Amazing Grace.” The September 13 drone show, which also featured drone-created images of the Blessed Virgin Mary, halos, and multiple works of Michelangelo, was part of the Vatican’s “Grace for the World” concert, which closed the third annual World Meeting on Human Fraternity in Rome that was inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical letter on human fraternity, Fratelli Tutti.
Drones form the face of Pope Francis at the Vatican, while Andrea Bocelli & US rapper Jelly Roll sing Amazing Grace.
Comes as part of tonight’s“Grace for the World” concert closing 3rd annual World Meeting on Human Fraternity, born from Pope Francis’ Fratelli Tutti pic.twitter.com/zXqWWZ9R4j
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Catholic author Leila Lawler noted in a Substack post that many in our modern society are feeling a void in their lives that can only be filled by Jesus Christ are not only finding “weird Hollywood things” in the modern Church.
“When millions of people, a good number of them quite influential in society, simply have nowhere to turn for a very present help in the one thing they want to do, because the Catholic Church has gotten “weird” and rejected the one thing it has to offer — the Lord Jesus Christ, worshiped in unbroken tradition — then we are looking into a void, and it will be filled by something that is not holy,” she wrote.
The “Grace for the World” concert was headlined by several songwriters, including Pharrell Williams and John Legend, who have written and performed several sexually explicit songs. Karol G, one of the most popular singers of reggaeton music who regularly performs pornographically for her music videos, also performed at the event.
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Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis’ 2020 encyclical “on fraternity and human friendship,” is widely argued to promote religious indifferentism and was condemned by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former papal nuncio to the U.S., as promoting a “blasphemous” form of brotherhood without God as well as “religious indifferentism.”
