Advertising the Rich: Francis Get Himself Entangled in Contradictions
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He added that he reads the Messaggero in the morning before work. And, “It is the only newspaper I read.”
Il Messaggero is a leftwing newspaper owned by the oligarch Franco Caltagirone, son of a rich family whose fortune is 2.5 billion dollars and who personally led Francis through the building. Il Messaggero is anti-Church but Francis friendly.
In May 2015 Francis told the Argentinian daily Voz de Pueblo: “I read only one newspaper, [the anti-Catholic] La Repubblica” - the Roman competitor of Il Messaggero.
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