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January 27, 2017  

HBO’s “The Young Pope” — Egregious Factual Errors Disturbing, Distracting & Disconcerting.

by Anura Guruge

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Click to access the IMDb.com listing for HBO’s “The Young Pope”.

The Pope with his outspoken and conniving Secretary of State, Cardinal Voiello.

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Click to ENLARGE and read here. Relevant paragraph from MY “The Next Pope 2011” book.

Yes, as is to be expected from a dramatization like this, there are a LOT of liberties taken when it comes to facts, depictions and settings.

Some are inevitable and you can live with them.

Others are just to egregious especially when certain plots revolve around them.

One such BIGGIE was in Episode 3. In that, the RESIGNATION of Cardinal Voiello, the supposed Secretary of State, figures large.

But, the Young Pope never RE-CONFIRMED Voiello as the Secretary of State — or for that matter ANY OTHER Cardinal Prefect heading up a curial ‘department’ (a so called dicastery).

All of these, as you can see from above, are AUTOMATICALLY relieved of their office and title. They have to be RE-APPOINTED by the new pope. That never happened.

So, a lot of what has gone on is .

I am not that thrilled with this series. It is, alas, not very good.

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by Anura Guruge

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Tags: , Cardinal Voiello, confirmed, factual errors, HBO, imdb.com, pope, resignation, Secretary Of State, The Next Pope, The Young Pope

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