The priests influencer are also experiencing theirs Damned was. The boom of the last months of Creator Priesties, also recognized by Pope Leone XIV and celebrated in Rome at the end of July during the Jubilee of the Catholic influencers, in the last few days he has experienced one brusque inversion. Like the classic influencers, the Don are also dealing with the diabolical mechanisms who hide between likes, stories and followers.
The last, in order of time, was Don Roberto fiscerGenoese priest who for years on Instagram and Tiktok has made content on the theme of faith, but not only: to attract the world of young people, the parish priest has always exploited trends, challenges and ballets adapting them to what could have been his target audience. However, a few days ago, Don su Tiktok posted a video in which he announces of wanting to leave social networks momentarily. A video in which, as usual, other content immediately followed.
“Tonight I do not share the usual video with you, but I wanted to communicate a decision I am making, that I am maturing in these weeks: that of leaving for a while, I don’t know how much, this family. Because for me this is a family. Why? Because the level of violence, aggression, in the comments under my videos has risen. And this hurts me”.
The case of lipstick and chocolate
One of the most discussed videos of Fiscner in the last period has been the one in which, as he has often done in the past, one of Tiktok trends ridden. Dressed with the liturgical vestments, the Don chose to simulate the moment of the consecration of the body and blood of Christ with the stanzas of the song “Rossetto e chocolate” of Ornella Vanoniwhich has returned viral in the last period on the platform. A gesture considered “blasphemous”. The lyrics of the song is an erotic metaphor among the most powerful of Italian music.
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After a month of criticism for this and for other content, therefore, Fiscer posted his very personal video Just a few days after the case unleashed by another colleague, Don Alberto Ravagnani. He has also been active for years as a digital priest. Ravagnani promoted a supplement on social media. A paid content that aroused a sea of controversy And to which the parish priest replied through the pages of Fanpage.it: “Jesus worked also. It is as if a priest could not do things for himself. Then he is full of priests who have the beautiful car and the beautiful phone. And with what money do they take them? With those of 8 per thousand”, he had justified himself.
Words he had also used in his Instagram stories but who had The follower-fideli convinced little. Even less the Curia of Milan, which clarified its position in RTL: “There was a very quiet chat in which it was pointed out that this advertising on social media was not considered appropriate. No disciplinary sanction”.
What priests are doing on social media
The Don, therefore, are also going through the same parable as theirs lay predecessors. From Chiara Ferragni to Martina Strazzer, passing through Newmartina. Each self -respecting influencer, in order to be considered such, must cross their very personal Calvary of insults, attacks and criticisms. To fault or right, it doesn’t matter. It is something that is part of a system now known to those who follow the internet dynamics: After the peak of popularity, success, social networks inevitably come to put you in front of a controversy. So the moment comes when the trusted pact, the magic with the followers, in this case even faithful, breaks. And it is here that the short circuit. Following videos of apologies, off for some time from the platforms and a more or less direct comparison to justify their choices.
Therefore, a collar or a crucifix is not enough for get out of a hellish worldin which to remove the merchants from the temple becomes more and more difficult. The influencers, like priests, are human and sin in the same way, even if the story of Fiscner and Ravagnani have evident discrepancies in the episodes but not in the context in which they took place. Like any novelty, even the world of social priests, is clashing with a reality that, at least outside, takes into account a certain ethics.
Like any unexplored world, even that of priests influencers and digital missionaries lacks rules. A little because The Church would have anything else to deal witha bit because evidently the world of social media was not expected to take unexplored paths, which they do not always lead to Rome, but which are indeed exchanged with A highway directed to Sodoma and Gomorra.
